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- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
present systemic risks because they have limited sources of short-term liquidity: commercial paper and repurchase agreements. Banks with securities powers can also obtain short-term financing through Fed loans and retail deposits. Given... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
entrepreneurship, and policy making. "It was an exciting effort that joined health care administrators, policymakers, and academics in discussing how to strengthen management education in the health sector, with a special focus on innovation," according to Herzlinger.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Marketing." A few of the papers in the issue came from that conference—the article on the selling of the cast-iron stove, America's first consumer durable; and on "sharp dealing" in the British door-to-door vacuum trade. The larger point... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
April-May issue of the Journal of the European Economics Association. The paper addressed this central question: When does the certification provided by an SSO's endorsement sway users to adopt a standard? Lerner and coauthor Jean Tirole... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
low-quality care,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. Edmondson and her colleagues studied the survey responses of clinicians at a midwestern health organization over a four-year period; they report on the dynamics of... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682 When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new (for health care) approach that can accurately measure the costs incurred over the care cycle for a patient's condition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate fewer returns to investors than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
backlash," to the point where it is probably fair to characterize the prevalent mood, among practitioners at least, as one of pessimism rather than optimism about globalization. The evidence reviewed in the paper that you cite... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Choudhury explores this phenomenon in a paper forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal, The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders, written with HBS doctoral student Do Yoon Kim.... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
analyzing it along with Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Lisa B. Kahn of Yale School of Management; they present their findings in a new working paper Discretion in Hiring. "Welcome to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25
Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
out he was right. Q: How did your research advance previous knowledge on bubble formation, "herd" mentality, and other work in this area? A: While there are scores of anecdotal accounts of inexperienced investors being lured into the market during times of... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
pay-for-performance is an opportunity to make it more fair. They think they can outperform whatever pay they get; they usually assume they will benefit in terms of higher pay. In his working paper co-authored with Mark D. Cannon of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2015
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Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in information analytics, attempting to get their arms around the wide array of patient data. Government incentives are helping the push. In 2011, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services established incentives for doctors' offices and hospitals to switch from... View Details