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  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

  Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

operating in preferred ways). We present an incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

market looked behind "the thin film of gold." Our results point to a dichotomy: whereas country-risk premia fell after gold adoption in developed countries, there were no credibility gains in the volatile economic and political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

profitability, and industry. Our results are consistent with the view that firms play an important role as arbitrageurs in the stock market. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-099.pdf Download the supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

account for the majority of sales and revenue. To tackle this challenge, we use machine learning techniques to estimate historical lost sales and predict future demand of new products. The nonparametric structure of our demand prediction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

deepening and a decline in total factor productivity following the introduction of wrongful-discharge protections. This last result is potentially quite important, suggesting that mandated employment protections reduce productive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

terms of costs." Going Forward Were the results due to unique circumstances at HP? The answer is yes and no, Beer and Cannon wrote. "HP's culture is one that historically placed more emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of changes in the post-Mao administrative hierarchy.   Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2012
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Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

operate. As Silk's research demonstrates, agencies have shifted historical industry policies, starting with a transformation from full-service and media commission-based compensation to unbundling and cost-based fee compensation. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

  PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to understand the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508049 Avaya (C): Implementing Demand Generation in Brazil Harvard Business School Supplement 508-050 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
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Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Chinese controlling much of the economy and Malays controlling the politics. The economic and political inequities would culminate in a large-scale riot in 1969, in which racially motivated attacks resulted in thousands of deaths. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 21 May 2020
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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

"excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are less likely than their loosely monitored counterparts to 1) use decision rights and 2) adjust for local information,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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