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- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
was often a key lever in compensating for an outsider status. As part of the professional credential process discussed previously, many of the outsiders in our research were... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
about negotiation stems from its inevitable uncertainty—and the realization that success is never wholly in our hands. That uncertainty and lack of control often breeds insecurity, defensiveness, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- March 2011
- Article
Cheaper Patents
By: Tom Nicholas
The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Global Range; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Fluctuation; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; United States; Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Cheaper Patents." Research Policy 40, no. 2 (March 2011).
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball... View Details
- April 2010
- Article
Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise
By: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier
Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; European Union; United States
Abdelal, Rawi, and Sophie Meunier. "Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise." Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 350–367.
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
competing in these new technologies had failed. Should it remain focused on blood gas analysis and redouble its efforts? Or should it turn to other opportunities for growth? CEO and controlling stockholder, Johan Schroder, had denied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the Web will provide this capability .... We believe that vertical portals will do the best job of providing the consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
at the time. Warburg Pincus had led a group of investors in acquiring Bauch & Lomb on October 26, 2007, taking the company private and becoming its largest and controlling shareholder. Since the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2020
- Article
How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections
By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that erodes... View Details
Keywords: Assessment; Bias; Inspection; Scheduling; Econometric Analysis; Empirical Research; Regulation; Health; Food; Safety; Quality; Performance Consistency; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2396–2416. (Revised February 2019. Featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Food Safety Magazine, Food Safety News, and KelloggInsight. (2020 MSOM Responsible Research Finalist.))
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
authorities when they contemplate yours? Does the political ethos favor state control or privatization? Does a wrenching political transition foster managerial uncertainty and decision paralysis? And so on. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
choice to ignore controls and to knowingly lie. Soltes: Well, what’s the distinction between puffery and fraud? There’s obviously an important legal distinction, but imagine you’re a CEO of a bank that could... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne