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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Yelp data can complement government surveys by measuring economic activity in close to real time, at a granular level, and at almost any geographic scale. Changes in the number of businesses and restaurants reviewed on Yelp can predict... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

wild." Key concepts include: The harmful side effects of goal setting are far more serious and systematic than prior work has acknowledged. Goal setting harms organizations in systematic and predictable ways. The use of goal setting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

thought to the challenges the company will face in the years ahead. While it is impossible to completely predict the future business environment, boards should be looking for leaders who are visionary as well as adaptable to changing... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

twice"), such as a charitable donation in the recipient's name, have become increasingly popular. Recipients generally enjoy these gifts, which not only benefit others in need but also make recipients feel good about themselves. But do givers accurately View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the U.S. Treasury nor Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

use an attribute's value to infer its weight—the value-weight heuristic—and identify the role of perceived diagnosticity: more extreme attribute values give observers the subjective sense that they know more about a decision-maker's View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

consumers' technological skills and openness to new experiences, and that consumers' beliefs about the social utility of feature-rich products are predictive of their choices of such products. Further, we examine when impression... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

response to an ad-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations. We also find that when there is an ad-sponsored entrant, the incumbent is more likely to prefer to compete through the subscription-based or the ad-sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

the world's most dominant retailers. Could Brandless change the way consumers bought the essential items that filled their pantries and medicine cabinets? Industry pundits had long predicted both the death of brands and the death of brick... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

https://hbr.org/2015/03/starbucks-race-together-campaign-and-the-upside-of-ceo-activism April 2015 Strong Brands, Strong Relationships Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne