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- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild Authors:Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
testing this relationship in the field. We analyze a field experiment at the supplier Hugo Boss to determine how the supplier’s inventory service level affects demand from its retailer customers. We find increases in historical fill rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Profitability Around the World Authors:Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, labor market competition, and government efficiency affect the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
gatekeeping institutions, from credit rating agencies to supply-chain auditors, are important players in contemporary regulatory regimes. Yet little is known about what influences the decisions of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced risk taking. The changes are isolated to indebted firms (where the legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
result," says Mariner, "today in every professional league, every team must scramble to increase revenues because the best players command the highest salaries. Without sufficient revenues to pay top players, it's more difficult to assemble a winning team." Free View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Harlan County disappeared between 2008 and 2016. Today, Harlan households earn less than half the national median income, and the unemployment rate is nearly 60 percent higher than the national rate. And like many rural communities across... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
years before reforms. For these firms, measures of technology transfer increased by more than 30 percent. In addition, we found that non-resident patent applications increased and grew at a faster rate following reforms, indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
drive innovation throughout the firm's many business verticals. Verisk, originally named ISO, started life as an insurance rating agency in the early 1970s, acting as an intermediary between insurance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Business School Case 709-025 In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese firms the most diversified in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ties can lead to less timely investments. Further examination shows that the reduced timeliness of connected funds is driven by a reluctance to withdraw holdings prior to weak investee performance. We interpret this as agency conflicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the highest “yield” rates in higher education. And on the other side of graduation, HBS alumni traditionally enjoyed astonishing success. It seemed an easy job to walk into. McArthur, however, knew better. He had spent more than two... View Details