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  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707413 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 707-441 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707441   PublicationsThe Rules of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

benefits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54377 Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence By: Logg, Jennifer M., Uriel Haran, and Don A. Moore Abstract—Are overconfident beliefs driven by the motivation to view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

the sustainable sourcing pillar, with its work on farming standards and supplier code as well as its support for local sourcing programs in the growing African market. HEINEKEN's management finds that marketing its achievements in these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance of our estimates. We were skeptical going in: We weren’t sure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2005
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The World in Your Palm?

features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2005
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How to Choose the Best Deal

working with a dealer or making subtle suggestions. Or he could decide that his advantage lies in standard talks, since creative solutions might be missed in a straight price deal. As a negotiator, work to define the process before... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

a concurrent change in electronic transaction standards allowed hospitals to document a larger number of diagnoses per claim, which had the effect of reducing risk-adjusted patient readmission rates. Prior studies of the HRRP relied upon... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/cambridge-history-capitalism-volume-2 August 2013 Science A Better Route to Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—Technological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
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Best Practices of Global Innovators

can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Although the data allow only some suggestive tests of rival hypotheses to explain long-run technological persistence, we find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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