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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
likelihood that non-compliant practices are detected, and the likelihood that detected violations are punished. However, the type of regulatory regime-compliance-based or "pay-to-pollute"-and three important cost thresholds also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
stocks that they hold and trade. Relative to standard approaches, this approach focuses on an especially informative subset of the returns data, potentially increasing power to detect skilled trading, and also sheds light on the sources... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
takeover: In a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006, we find that announcement returns and long-term abnormal returns are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
out its Genetics Diagnostic Lab into a fully commercial entity. Claritas offered over 100 genomic tests to detect a range of conditions, including autism and intellectual disabilities, and was developing new tests that provided clearer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
These results provide some of the first field-based evidence on the potential for a firm's balanced scorecard to provide useful information for detecting problems in its strategy. February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Are Incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
by advertising revenue. On the other hand, he detected clear bias in the types of companies that the press targets for special scrutiny. For this reason, business people are wise not to underestimate the ability of the press—particularly... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss the associated biases and present a robust set of moment conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables. Furthermore, we show that conventional tests to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
"retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the "American" (as opposed to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables in estimation. Furthermore, we show that conventional tests to detect serial correlation have weak power and can be misleading, resulting in a misuse of moment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
the mechanisms underlying racial paralysis, revealing greater recruitment of brain regions implicated in socially appropriate behavior (VMPFC), conflict detection (ACC), deliberative processing (DLPFC), and inhibition (VLPFC). We discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
steadfast in its commitment to the case method. Reflecting on the discussions that took place during the faculty colloquium, Garvin says he detected "no sense at all that the case method is in need of repair." The program... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
occur relatively quickly when the underlying repugnance changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-077.pdf An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation Authors:Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman Abstract The purpose of this paper is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
discount the risk. Such an approach can be catastrophic. Firms that do a good job of dealing with ambiguous threats do not improvise during a crisis; rather, they apply a rigorous set of detection and response capabilities that they have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Bavel Abstract—Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
algorithms and statistical analysis to detect problems such as leaks, bursts, and faulty equipment within a water utility's infrastructure. Such problems caused significant water and energy loss at many utilities, led to service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne