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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
increases in perceived bias against Whites—a relationship not observed in Blacks' perceptions. Moreover, these changes in Whites' conceptions of racism are extreme enough that Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
cross section of firms from 42 countries over 7 years, we are able to explain 41%, 46%, and 63% of the variation in social performance, environmental performance, and corporate governance respectively, with observable firm, industry, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Case 210-056 This two-page case demonstrates how to unbundle the cost of credit extensions from product prices by observing the price of a credit default swap. It also explores how credit default swaps work, and how trade creditors are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
prices of many vitamins 50 percent or more. In the end, even after record criminal fines and jail time for some executives, some observers argued, such practices were likely to recur. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
on two validation databases. The results suggest several important findings. First, methods do matter. The differences observed in predictive accuracy across submissions could change the profitability of a churn management campaign by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
than most observers expected," he notes. "However, much work remains in the struggle to transform the country's economy and its social structure. Its leaders' principal challenge now is to try to boost job opportunities and personal... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
grow a successful company, observes Deborah A. Farrington (MBA 1976), the founder and cochairman of StarVest Partners in New York City. “We are back to the reality that it takes seven to eight years to build a company prior to going... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
disclosure levels for consumer information and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
net return of 13.7 percent (an upper-quartile fund begun in that year had a return of 20.4 percent) (Venture Economics 1997). These calculations of Xerox's internal rate of return (IRR) do not include any ancillary benefits generated by this program for the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
resonated with several segments of the population. While many experts predicted a Clinton victory, Trump was ultimately elected president in November 2016. During his first 100 days in office, Trump tested the boundaries of the U.S. government, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
comprises information on over 2,000 software applications observed over a four-year period. We find that applications with higher levels of coupling cost more to maintain, are less likely to be retired, and are less likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat maker, observers began to wonder if the reorganization made sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as genuine self-regulation. Many observers doubt that accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
transformation. Through trial and error, observation and interpretation, the new managers learned what it took to become effective business leaders. The Business of Platforms by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
outspending smaller-market clubs. These days, an MLB team has to spend at least $45 million in player payroll to have a chance to win; average team revenues are only $50 million." Indeed, as Steve Greyser observes of the Marlins and other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
point, which translates into an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a voucher program would disproportionately induce into private schools those who, along View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne