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  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

to value the expected costs of issuing a loan guarantee. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211032-PDF-ENG Chances Are? Hanna W. Halaburda and Aldo Sesia Jr.Harvard Business School Case 711-417 The case describes two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

illustrate how team members' identities and interests intertwine to affect the distribution and flow of information, subgroup dynamics, and team decisions. Findings-We develop three specific ideas to demonstrate the utility of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying taxes and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

and maturity of startups that apply for angel funding (and those that are ultimately funded) is inversely correlated with the entrepreneurship friendliness of the country, which may reflect self-censoring by very early-stage firms that do not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

taught in a module devoted to utilizing customer-operators to improve service operations (HBS 608-135). The exercise is taught in three parts: in-class workshop, project presentation, and post-exercise poll. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

utilize technology to ensure individual privacy. In this world, the system works in favor of privacy, not against it. The distributed imperative we describe recognizes that all value is located in individual end consumers and all cash... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

in different modes of transportation since my first visit as a kid to the Boeing factory and have spent my time at HBS learning about advances in this field. Along these lines, I am exploring concepts for utilizing cutting-edge... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

from unfamiliar data sets. Combining introductory statistics with a few ideas from the philosophy of science, this work helps generalists find patterns that may be expected to recur in the future. Identifying one or two such relationships... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

completion of the widening of the Panama Canal, an improvement that is expected to significantly increase export/import growth in East Coast ports, many of which are serviced by CSX. For every dollar of public money invested in Gateway,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

expectations to businesspeople. He also published forecasts through syndicated newspaper columns and made public pronouncements on the future of the economy—including a notorious statement on the eve of the October 1929 stock-market crash... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that are better at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne