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- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
themes and areas of focus (increased representation, data collection, shared language, communication, learning development, accountability, and measures) and see several opportunities to collaborate, as the HBSAAA and Black alumni can... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management positions, we show that changes in the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1
learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We use three new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
help them with the nuts and bolts of starting their own business, and pitching their final plan to a panel of real-world venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, HBS Business Plan Contest participants gain a unique, out-of-classroom... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
conditions under which they operate. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying Authors:William R. Kerr, William Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
procurement can be streamlined to avoid inadequate specification of the project’s scope and/or a bad selection process. For example, Senegal’s Infrastructure Council vets projects, the World Bank and other development finance institutions help to fund a proper set of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team-the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers. Using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
series 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne