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21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Bazerman Abstract Previously titled "Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation. This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

the bottom, growing up in Elsies River - an Afrikaans-speaking, Colored area outside of Cape Town. This paper begins with a description of the economic conditions in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, then details the BEE... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

their new working paper Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? Vallée and Yao Zeng, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Washington, address these issues from the perspective of what platforms can do to level the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

28 Jun 2017
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Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

Mathematica Policy Research. “Increases to the minimum wage then disproportionately push them over the edge.” The research brings more insight into the continuing argument over whether raising the minimum wage hurts businesses. The findings were reported in the April... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

07 Jul 2014
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Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

paper Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? (forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics). "Planning regulation ended up harming independent retailers," she writes. "According to the results... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

24 May 2004
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When Reputation Trumps Regulation

whether revelations about weak enforcement history have hurt the market for cross-listing. The evidence from my two papers would suggest that investors should place greater trust in those cross-listed firms that have built up a reputation... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Jan 2004
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Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

right things. If they wanted to, they could then benchmark themselves against other firms of similar sizes and industries in a very pragmatic way. Q: How are you going to take these learnings further? What's next for you? A: We need to finish the academic View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
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Connecting With Nonprofits

via paper status report Expanded personal relationships throughout the organizationStrong personal connection at leadership levelEmerging infrastructure, including relationship managers, communication channels/vehicles Expanded... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

01 Oct 2024
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How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A recent paper illustrates how the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

11 Oct 2022
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Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

“Loan officers seem to be having an important influence on mortgage outcomes.” “Loan officers seem to be having an important influence on mortgage outcomes,” Sunderam says. “The most surprising finding in the paper is the fact that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Greiner Periodical:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract This paper revisits the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels (1998). We replicate the basic design of the solidarity game and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

PublicationsThe Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Pavel Zhelyazkov Publication:The Academy of Management Annals (forthcoming) Abstract This View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Sep 2005
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The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

communication has been elusive. That's too bad, because people have been anticipating profound effects from the ability to collaborate in real time at a distance for a long time. One of our favorite examples of this is described in a View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

paper what are we looking for. We're trying to figure out what we want analytically and then interview for that, and making sure we're getting what we need. We've become much more rigorous about that. But we also recognize that we make... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

16 May 2018
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How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

effects of internment. The business implications of civil internment are uncharted territory,” says Giacomin, who co-authored the paper with Christina Lubinski, a former Harvard-Newcomen Fellow now at Copenhagen Business School, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

07 Aug 2017
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'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

14 Mar 2016
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The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

to shake the effects of some lousy weather. “I think the reason why this paper is important, especially now, is that unions are a hotly debated issue within policy and within our political process,” Cohen says. “Some people say we... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Nov 2013
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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

often fail to take into account the complete value of the customers they are trying to retain. "What's missing from traditional methods is that they focus only on a customer's likelihood to churn, but not on the overall profitability of that customer," says Gupta, who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

15 Apr 2013
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Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

advance—Gupta could use that historical data to see how spending on different types of ads affected those decisions. The findings from the research were recently published in the working paper Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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