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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by Friedman and Jones included... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
really, really, really miserable to be away from home during Diwali,” Choudhury recalls. By analyzing company performance data, the researchers were able to make a causal connection between “vacation flexibility” and job performance. On... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
causal relationship between the two. The problem, of course, is that only certain types of punches-punches to the stomach-produce stomachaches. "Without greater precision about mechanism, it would be easy to wrongly dismiss the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our data. To help identify causal effects, we look within multinational firms, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://issuu.com/accaglobal_publications/docs/af08_2014_comp_lowres August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
to identify with much greater precision the causal link between management and performance. "We want to get at the causality between management and performance," she says. "And to do that, you... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
Asia and South America), gender diversity has little or even negative correlation with firm performance. Granted, we cannot make a causal claim because we do not have an identification strategy, but this study gives us strong preliminary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
competition and management practices, and they found a strong relationship between the level of competition and the quality of management practices adopted in hospitals. Dafny: There’s also quite a lot of research demonstrating that hospital consolidation View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
significantly positive; on the other hand, the marginal effects of taxation for growth for a state at the 90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-056.pdf PublicationsSocial Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
information about the quality of colleagues for each analyst. Because we had data over a long period of time for all these factors, we were able to distinguish the causal effects of individual and organizational factors on star... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary least squares regression. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman