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- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of global product and labor markets... View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
shelter-in-place policies and public testing centers, are the most effective and initially only option to limit the spread of coronavirus. To fill this need, MBA students teamed up with Hikma Health on a purely volunteer basis to collect... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Heterogeneity and Redistribution Authors:Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Preferences over consumption and leisure play no role in the standard optimal tax model, which attributes all variation in earnings to differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
only loyal and willing to recommend the organization to others, but who make referrals, influence others to join as customers or employees, test new products or services and provide suggestions for improvements, and are willing to help in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
between and among experimenters and theorists, and psychologists and economists, about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions testing market, where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
several proof-of-concept tests and for which Rey foresaw a clear market in nutritional supplements and functional foods. The case provides context on the company; describes advances in crops genetics focused to climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
especially on entitlements. In other words, this plan is a standard push toward a smaller government and a less constrained market. Second, the plan’s supporters believe fairness in tax policy depends on how much people pay rather than on... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
through his own leadership of the meeting. The purpose of these rules was to introduce new standards of interpersonal behavior and, in the process, to combat several dysfunctional routines. One serious test... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel