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  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

  Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2017
  • Conference Presentation

A Convex Framework for Fair Regression

By: Richard Berk, Hoda Heidari, Shahin Jabbari, Matthew Joseph, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel and Aaron Roth
We introduce a flexible family of fairness regularizers for (linear and logistic) regression problems. These regularizers all enjoy convexity, permitting fast optimization, and they span the range from notions of group fairness to strong individual fairness. By varying... View Details
Keywords: Regression Models; Machine Learning; Fairness; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

negotiator who wants to be fair from the start ensure that his or her counterpart will be reasonable as well? The authors propose the final-offer arbitration challenge, which leverages an approach first applied in labor negotiations in the 1960s. You can employ this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

prevalence of modern management accounting practices in Indian companies. We conclude with a discussion of future research opportunities provided by India's current status as an emergent economic power. Rewriting History Authors:Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

Development, edited by Thomas G. Cummings. Sage Publications, Inc., 2007 Abstract When it comes to transforming big corporations, there are two fundamentally different strategies, says Harvard Business School professor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

J. Marinich, and Michael D. Shields Abstract—This study examines the effect of psychological contract breach on budgetary misreporting. Psychological contracts are mental models or schemas that govern how... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
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Mercer Management Consulting (A)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Echenberg
Insurance giant Marsh & McLennan acquires management consulting firms Temple, Barker & Sloane (TBS) in 1987 and Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) in 1990 and sets out to merge the two. The merger proceeds slowly and painfully. Following the February 1990 merger,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Horizontal Integration; Consulting Industry
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  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death" Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 810-144 The case focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

  Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2, 2020
  • Article

Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Quality
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  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

Framework Authors:Herman B. Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Chap. 2 in Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response, edited by Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem, 18-41. Wharton... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

  Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2016
  • Conference Presentation

Rawlsian Fairness for Machine Learning

By: Matthew Joseph, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
Motivated by concerns that automated decision-making procedures can unintentionally lead to discriminatory behavior, we study a technical definition of fairness modeled after John Rawls' notion of "fair equality of opportunity". In the context of a simple model of... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Decision Making; Mathematical Methods
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