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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
interactions. We find that NGOs with similar goals end up using very different strategies and tactics to advance their housing agendas. More significantly, we observe that NGOs are likely to employ multiple strategies and tactics in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
project's early stages. It would organize the interface with supporting institutions such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and with local business partners. And since the WDC would have NGO representation on its board, it would assure NGO... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Primarily interested in incentives for growth in developing countries, the researchers began their study in India, where a large portion of businesses are family-owned. But they ended up finding similar results with follow-up studies in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role of regional governments. It is motivated by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
positioning boards to think outside of the box,” Groysberg says. Recent research has backed that up, says Cheng. “So many directors are recruited through social networks and informal channels,” she says. “Directors tend to recruit people View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
is that women’s thin representation at senior levels remains in place. We conclude by highlighting contributions to work-family, workplace inequality, and systems-psychodynamic theory. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
proposed that "the board could tie the CEO's exit package with the grooming of a successor." B.V. Krishnamurthy said that "the ultimate solution may be similar to the job rotation concept of the Japanese companies in their... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
investment-banking revenues. To assess the generality of our findings, we test the same relations using compensation data from a second high-status bank and obtain similar results. The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
(humans, mannequins) and dog form (real dogs, toy dogs). We used multivariate pattern analysis of BOLD responses to uncover the representational similarity space for each area... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
more frequent basis.” Yelp used to target dirty restaurants In his own work, Luca has applied similar techniques to textual analysis of Yelp reviews to help cities determine which restaurants to inspect.... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the globally standardized product... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace