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Commencement 2019 Address | About
today: As you move into leadership roles, and as your duties call on you to make decisions that test your integrity, imagine yourself as the protagonist in a case study. Imagine a future generation of students sitting in Aldrich, debating... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
of your work? “Working for a hunger-relief organization during a pandemic has been tremendously challenging. We’ve had to respond quickly to meet the rapidly increasing need in our communities, which seemed to double overnight. We have focused on learning as quickly as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no controls for these effects indicate that annualized buy-side Strong Buy/Buy recommendations underperform those for sell-side peers by 5.9% using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
to parallel play by preschoolers, entrepreneurs engaged in parallel play interweave action, cognition, and timing to accelerate learning about a novel world. Specifically, they (1) borrow from peers and focus on established substitutes; (2) View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
populations, one expects such attitudes to be sacrosanct and nearly inalterable, perhaps for generations to come. On the other hand, even these attitudes may be informed by social cues that interpret violence in different ways and that signal who in the community... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
signals, we consider the influence of singular sector-level triggers, which we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government payments is related to proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
five-year legislative process for a major new law regulating chemicals in the European Union appeared to be nearing its conclusion. REACH—the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals—would create a new European Chemicals Agency, require... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-056.pdf PublicationsSocial Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
this in fact was the case. And although the legislature did amend the Reform Act two years later, retroactive to the initial act, it did not re-adopt the earlier prohibition on noncompetes but merely adopted the "reasonableness" View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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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
- 08 Oct 2013
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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
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain to View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
Abstract—Sarcasm is ubiquitous in organizations. Despite its prevalence, we know surprisingly little about the cognitive experiences of sarcastic expressers and recipients or their behavioral implications. The current research proposes and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect operates in part through a stronger sorting of land-intensive industries from nodal districts to non-nodal districts located on the GQ network. The GQ upgrades further helped... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which passes prevailing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne