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- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
Teams: Managing SPLIT to Bridge Social Distance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-014 Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation On... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive effects for non-nodal districts located 0-10 km from GQ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
putt and the remaining distance to the pin conditioned on missing. The first is modeled through a logistic regression, the second through a gamma regression. Both models fit the data well and provide interesting insights into the game.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are segmented according to their sensitivity to travel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016
difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
assessing the outcomes of the company's strategies after 1945. It examines the challenges and costs faced by the company in recovering the ownership of its brands. While the management of distance became much easier over the course of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
activity to distance themselves from competitors. Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value Author:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 28 in Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
data, they have distanced themselves from the accounting process itself. Accounting scholarship has failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
with $400 million in revenues and a market capitalization of around $8 billion. Being a closer involves more than a willingness to go the distance in negotiating deals. You also have to be comfortable repeatedly making life-or-death... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
By: Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
hired from low employment districts (remote employees) outperform their non-remote counterparts in the short-term. They continue to outperform their non-remote counterparts in the long-term once we control for the distance of migration.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
did, more than 140 years ago, the Internet and the transmission technologies that fueled its growth and its impact began to transform markets, products, and companies—not to mention collective perspectives of distance and time—in lasting... View Details