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  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

whether review times or product novelty predicted adverse event reporting. Longer review times were associated with a lower probability of any subsequent reports and a lower probability of reports involving injury/death. Controlling for review time, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

http://www.foreurope.eu/index.php?id=766&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bsearch%5d%5brule%5d=AND&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bsearch%5d%5bsep%5d=space&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bshow_abstracts%5d=0&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bshow_keywords%5d=0&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5byear%5d=2013&tx_sevenp... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

satisfaction and willingness to exert effort. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=35966&i=35968&cs=c47cdb98df17b9135950d44df0b063b0 November 2014 Zhongguo ke xue yuan yuan kan [Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
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Business and the Global Poor

transform their organizational culture. The case studies in this book show that the companies which have succeeded in low-income markets were ones that strengthened their bottom-up market intelligence—finding novel ways to integrate the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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downsides, including the risk of burnout—ensuring that employees aren’t working too much, and that even in a performance-driven culture that emphasizes hard work, they maintain time for activities that will ensure a healthy personal and... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the... View Details
  • 14 May 2020
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What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

toward a single image, phrase, or movement for a period of time. You can even optimize your daydreaming with a few psychological tricks, such as thinking about yourself in the third person, as if you were a character in a novel or... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

challenging areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55885 Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Gamified training is a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

the United States. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-015.pdf Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com Author:Michael Luca Abstract Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne