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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
researchers tagged the videos in order to keep track of which ones were shared. Participants also completed written personality tests to gauge whether they were introverts or extroverts, self-directed or other-directed. "It turns out that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of complexity but that can be as simple... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design reports whether a general theory can be rejected on an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
swap into dollars to make up for the dollar shortfall, but this may lead to violations of covered interest parity (CIP) when there is limited capital to take the other side of the swap trade. In this case, synthetic dollar borrowing becomes expensive, which causes cuts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Akcigit_Kerr_Growth_Feb2012.pdf Hurry Up and Wait: Differential... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs to develop a set of hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
prenatal screening for genetic diseases and DNA tests to determine lineage and paternity. In addition, the company launched a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Stem Cell Company. CEO Robert Jansen hoped to grow the Stem Cell Company but faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
etc., you would get a list of very interesting and sometimes helpful practices. And if you, as a public leader, aren’t doing the things on that list, you should. And if you, the public, aren’t demanding them, you should. But the reality is, if you subjected the list to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
appropriate relational contracts within the firm. In this paper we report the first results from a research program designed to test the empirical validity of this idea. We use the quasi-randomized roll out across multiple sites within a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope of its ratings, to empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
implies that these firms would find it especially difficult to increase the scale of their operations and grow. Hence, understanding the factors that influence growth in such firms would be a conservative test of growth in other firms.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
improve it, haven't tested it out." That's why we wrote the book: to say, "Wait a minute, this is not inevitable, and this is a resource that's very strong and very important to our society." So the first reaction [to our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
that their goods have been safety tested by a truly independent third party, and that the products comply with meaningful safety standards. For the world's largest retailer to take a bold position on safety would set a strong precedent... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
others are hard at work creating experiences that will be much richer, but just as easy to initiate and engage in. Q: What other areas are you focusing on with regard to broadband, given its current state? A: The chapter in the book on Internet2, the research View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
ECY winners for more than 20 years. “We care about, and choose, companies that will hopefully stand the test of time,” says Druyan. “We look at market cap, growth, whether it’s a compelling business. Companies have to be fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley