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  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

between steps. I show that the optimal number of modules (and buffers) increases as the underlying rate of technical change goes up. When the underlying technologies are changing rapidly, it makes sense to sacrifice some degree of flow View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford Technology Law Review View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

future employment opportunities). However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift-by offering a raise (with no additional conditions) after the employee has accepted the contract-does lead to higher productivity for the duration of the job.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

increasing financial control and encouraged organizational changes such as multidisciplinary wards differentiated by patients' lengths of stay. To what extent should he (and can he) reinforce these measures, which have increased View Details
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

applications). The analysis shows that the platform can resolve these problems by limiting the number of applications available. By limiting choice, the platform may create new equilibria (including the allocation that maximizes users'... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced increases in operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

are more effective for partisans, candidate advertising is more effective for non-partisans, whereas outside advertising is more effective for partisan voters. Our findings can help strategists efficiently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Theorem." Journal of Financial Economics 5, no. 3 (November 1977): 241-249. Merton, Robert C. "On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates." Journal of Finance 29, no. 2 (May 1974): 449-470. ** Merton, Robert C. "On the Role of Social... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors, board tenure and size, and public information available to outside directors. Moreover, boards allocate directors in ways to alleviate information segregation through multi-committee directors. Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne