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  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

monetary value.Photo: iStockPhoto However, not all forms of personal information exploitation are beneficial to consumers. Firms sometimes exploit personal information to better estimate customers' willingness to pay and to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

and tight monetary policy. To illustrate our point, in the last half of 2007, 36% of all debt issues were bank loans. However, relative loan issuance fell to 8% by the first half of 2009, the lowest level in the period from 1990 to 2009.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is negatively moderated by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants. "I was just an intern," Ashraf says, "but as I looked around the boardroom I realized that not one of these people had ever actually talked to a farmer in Morocco. And... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

according to the organization’s long-term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Quasi-Experiment By: Israeli, Ayelet Abstract—This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

option. The "unsorted" group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional preferences doubled effort and the performance of solutions-controlling for skills, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

two network surveys supported these hypotheses.   Cases & Course MaterialsAFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 309-101 Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

monetary rewards are at stake (Study 3). The tendency to infer dislike from dissimilarity is driven by a belief that others have a narrow and homogeneous range of preferences (Study 5). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

is essential to having a good social order. Should judges deserve an infinite amount, too? The notion that somehow the logic of a purely monetary conception of value could be transferred to business struck me as odd, especially in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

so distorted the housing market that they made a financial breakdown inevitable, the minority response argues. As a result, Washington, not Wall Street, is the villain in the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble. The minority response also faults the Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

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