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- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
our kids were admitted into the top 25 colleges, 98 percent in the top 50 colleges. And 94 percent of our students graduate from college, which is a very high percentage given the graduation rate for inner-city kids. “The students... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
person, and were less willing to continue providing them with counsel. These advisors also rated their advice seekers as less warm, less competent, and more careless. Advisors not only reacted negatively toward the advice seeker, but... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
summer) to review and evaluate the advice. As a whole, the young advice recipients gave higher ratings to the advice from the experienced interns who had "rediscovered" their own summer diary accounts. Zhang was not surprised. "The people... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater relative female entry rates even after controlling for the focal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
think the fundamental issue is not the rate of adoption of the e-reader, or whether publishers will survive in their current form, or what their role will be in the future," Olson comments. "The fundamental question at the very... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
momentum with the passage of time after the stall. Of the companies in the study, 87 percent had experienced a stall. Fewer than half of those were able to return to prior rates of growth within a decade after the stall. Of the reasons... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
take a look at America Online. My recollection is that they had about 10,000 subscribers at that time who were paying a little less than $20 per month. That gave them a running rate of $2.4 million in gross revenues per year. I thought... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
developed by planners and occur independent of the bottom-up process. They are based on macroeconomic factors such as the economic growth rate and corporate growth objectives. The two approaches typically yield different results, which... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
rate for its electricity. Yet community opposition to the plant is fierce in some areas. “There's a great deal of activity and excitement in energy markets.” "The case is about the difficulties entrepreneurs can have in finding... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
fossil fuels and releasing CO2 emissions at rates that by 2100 will far outstrip the cumulative amount of atmospheric CO2 needed to increase the average world temperature by 2 degrees Celsius—if not 6 degrees. And after 2100, the world... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
invited me in on an occasional guest-lecturer basis. When they first invited me five or six years ago, it was clear that I was the broccoli: Now here’s Rebecca, she’s going to talk about climate change and make you feel uncomfortable. In the past, I’ve always had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be covered. By 1988, when Clinkscales entered HBS, Urban Profile was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
can reform them to where they aren’t even a government program anymore. So your goal is to go beyond President Bush’s proposal to partially privatize Social Security? Well, everyone would have an option. If you want to stay in the old program, you can stay and earn a 1... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Abstract—We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize both the popular color and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne