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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
competence, transparency, and identification) will be relevant to which stakeholder type. We test the predictions of our framework using original survey data from 1,298 respondents across four stakeholder groups from four different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differential between inflation-indexed and nominal bond yields, we separately test for time-varying real rate risk premia, inflation risk premia, and liquidity premia in U.S. and U.K. bond markets. We find strong, model independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Liquidity Dean Jay Light began his introductory remarks by characterizing the crisis and collapse of housing prices as a test that has exposed how fragile the recently evolved U.S. financial system is. "Leverage, transparency, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
our professional endeavors, and that has never been more tested than over the past two-and-a-half years when both of us went through the pandemic and both suddenly had to pivot to working at home. I think the bedrock for me personally, I... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
I find robust evidence of a negative (positive) relation between unexplained (explained) pay disparity and future firm performance. Additional tests show that the negative relation between unexplained disparity and firm performance is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israeli start-ups raised record-breaking amounts of venture capital, and exits for the year totaled over $8 billion. On the other hand, government expenditure on R&D had decreased and Israel’s position in the Global Innovation Index had fallen. Several other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
redirections, but also on how entrepreneurs anticipate, communicate, and pace these changes to various external supporters. In other words, how they explain strategic reorientations may matter as much or more than the changes themselves. Successful entrepreneurs do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
we attempt to identify a structure among the model elements to test hypotheses about (1) the inter-relationships of the explanatory variables, and (2) the relationships of the explanatory variables to each other and to firm performance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
This requires companies to be astute about how they prototype and test. IDEO adheres to the “three Rs” rule: rough, rapid, and right. For example, when testing the ergonomics of a new type of telephone receiver, prototypes can be carved... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
good candidates for the program? Falik: Global Citizen Year is a leadership program, so we are looking each year for the highest-potential young people we can find. We take everyone through a rigorous selection process where we’re not looking at View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
both of which she’d later use at the helm of the beauty brand. Yet, as Leahy notes, she didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with higher exports. Second, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace