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  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with the real economy. The last of these state View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel?... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides) Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

(a) fosters a longer-term perspective and (b) widens the firm’s scope; and ecosystem creation. While much of the dynamic capabilities literature has focused on testing causal relationships between key performance variables and constructs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—A firm's costs are typically tightly guarded secrets. However, across six laboratory experiments and a field study we identify when and why firms benefit from revealing cost information to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

  Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— Traditional innovation View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

primary customer? Decided whether shareholders, employees, or customers come first? Narrowed down which performance variables to track? Have you set creative boundaries? Are you generating creative tension? Are you promoting cooperation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

other variables would be deemed inappropriate, because the same theory of taxation implies that we ought to tax them as well. Q: To what extent are you thinking about and researching tax policy for businesses? A: I am currently writing an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

McDonald’s, and they wanted to come back. They just needed a reason. “There was a latent love for the brand,” says Kempczinski. “We had just been underdelivering on what their expectations were.” “In the end, we realized we just needed to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
  • 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

optimism could be considered another prerequisite for entry in an unpredictable industry that has surfaced only recently from a twenty-year depression. "The overall return is inadequate for the risk," concedes Kaiser, "yet the very nature of the challenge — the high... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino