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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

business-government relations, nonmarket strategy, and organization theory. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shiatt/GMO_paper_AMJ.pdf ISO Standards Stamp Approval Authors:Michael James and Michael W. Toffel Publication:European... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

effects of corporate governance should be greatest when firms become overvalued. We test this simple yet powerful idea. Using proxies of firm and industry price deviations from fundamentals and standard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

that the teleradiology industry views its product as a commodity—that is, two qualified radiologists are expected to read the same image in the same way. That situation provided the research team an opportunity to test three questions... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

interviewed had not relaxed the standards, and in fact they said that, if anything, they had held women entrepreneurs to a higher standard because they did not want to be viewed as a weak link or an easy way into the firm. They did think... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

e.g., to buy out minority shareholders; for gift and estate tax purposes; to tie executive compensation to firm performance; to raise outside capital; or to sell the company outright. However, these companies present certain unique characteristics that can make View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

the standard inflationary bias. With countercyclical inflation, investors require risk premia on nominal debt, making nominal debt issuance costly for low credibility governments. We provide empirical support for this mechanism, showing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

professionals from more than 30 PSFs have yielded four principles for firms to heed as they rediscover this lost art. First, mentoring is personal. Rather than relying on standardized programs, mentors must frequently—and fairly—provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

employees. And, because standard interviews enable you to spot trends but unstructured ones elicit unexpected insights, consider combining the two approaches in semi-structured interviews. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

intentional attempt to synthesize, abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. Drawing on dual-process theory, we focus on the reflective dimension of the learning process and propose that learning can be augmented by deliberately focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

rates, risk-aversion, and the influence of employers and neighbors. Download the working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-071.pdf Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

analyze the data using nonparametric tests and regression analysis. Findings—The mean number of business segments per firm varies significantly by country. Notably, there is no evidence in our sample that emerging-market companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

problem where many actors must collaborate together, including companies, investors, accounting firms, sell-side analysts, regulators and standard setters, and NGOs and civil society itself. We all have a responsibility for making... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

standards (IAS) in 2005. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsStudying Creativity, Its Processes, and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology that teaches students... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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