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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of the market for both music player hardware and online music sales. But the evolving ability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative to a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a global go-to-market plan for the firm. The team is considering several target markets, ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
propensity score matched samples. We find significant heterogeneity in corporate disclosure responses across those four countries. Relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms in China and South Africa increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
thinking about Mars as a way for NASA to show that we still have it.” (courtesy Lewis Braxton III) The agency is currently developing the necessary capabilities to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025—sort of a trial run—and to Mars in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
using systems thinking and complexity theory to help us understand the challenges at the ecosystem level. There's also growing attention to using randomized control trials in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
on billable hours, for your whole career, means that it will never become family-friendly. It is noteworthy, however, that I met my wife at the consulting firm. Small firm consulting. Upon leaving the large firm, my wife and I founded a small consulting firm. While we... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
causes of the gender gap in patenting among life scientists. Our regressions on a random sample of 4,227 life scientists over a 30-year period show that women faculty members patent at about 40% of the rate of men. We found that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trials at Boston Children’s Hospital. As the founders prepare to bring their new medical device to market, they struggle with two key decisions: Should Luminopia create its own salesforce to sell its product or should it outsource? And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne