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  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Experiment 1). In addition, we find that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly than those in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 13 Jan 2009
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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
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Seeing glass in a new light

buildings, dynamic glass dramatically increases flexibility in architectural design while reducing energy consumption. As CEO of View Dynamic Glass, Mulpuri has succeeded in taking this 50-year-old nanotechnology to market and is leading... View Details
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Fonterra to enhance its competitive position. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-453 Novartis: A Transformative Deal When Joe Jimenez became CEO of Swiss-based... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • August 2002 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Italy: A New Commitment to Growth

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
Examines Italy's efforts to comply with the Maastricht Treaty and become integrated with Europe in the European Union. By 2002, Italy has achieved macroeconomic stability, but slow growth threatens the country's future competitiveness. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Alliances; Italy; European Union
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  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

strengths and weaknesses of the development strategy of this small country as set forth by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who ruled from 1995 to 2013. In 2013, for the first time in Qatar's history, Emir... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is one of the highest-paid coaches in the National Football League; Forbes in 2013 estimated his salary as $7.5 million. His track record helps explain the high... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 12 Jan 2010
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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
  • 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are mutually endogenous. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations

By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
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  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

parties and then decide whether to attempt to raise new capital, declare bankruptcy, or try to lead a controlled wind-down. The case explores crisis management, decisions by principals operating in the zone View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

than projected by the Congressional Budget Office in 2009. Using detailed data on the breadth of both hospital and physician networks, we studied the prevalence of narrow networks and quantified the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

it was difficult for anyone at headquarters to make educated decisions and communicate them to branch offices. In those cases, it was natural to cede control of daily operations to a local manager. With... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Seth Klarman

act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 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
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  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

  Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for vulnerable users with low education and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman