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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Law; Education; Employment; Selection and Staffing; Marketplace Matching
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

discuss her research and the enduring power of Adam Smith's ideas. Ann Cullen: How did you and your coauthors come to be interested in this lesser known publication of Adam Smith? Nava Ashraf: Several years ago while taking a graduate course at Harvard on the Scottish... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

printing plate. Based on the principle of the repellent qualities of grease and water, lithography involves dampening the stone before applying oil-based ink that bonds with the greasy drawing on the stone, but does not stick to the wet, unmarked areas. View Details
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

most of his work as a professor, he spent hours each week reviewing papers for academic journals out of a sense of obligation to the profession. “Then I stopped and thought, ‘What happens if I don’t do some of these reviews?’” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

culminated in the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, which held for about two years before collapsing in the wake of Watergate. The account in this working paper carefully describes—but does not analyze nor draw lessons from—core... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

Great Training Robbery, a working paper based on case studies conducted by Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader, as well as decades of research on training effectiveness, will be the focus of a Harvard Business Review article this... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

  Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multi-sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright; Technology
  • 17 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova
  • 17 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Performance; Economics
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems

By: Anette Mikes
How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

is. But such an approach is risky, too. Do you really want to position your brand on the side of telling people to work too much? Keinan, an associate professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, explores the phenomenon in a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

administration. The monograph precedes their later account of the experiments, Management and the Worker, published in 1939. Research studies in employee effectiveness and industrial relations: papers presented at the annual autumn... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate and emergent. A deliberate strategy, they explained, is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel