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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
remained remarkably stable over the five years. There was an overall shift in the types of sites visited, however, from chat rooms and news to social media and video. “We were taken aback,” admits Greenstein, the MBA Class of 1957... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
conclude by briefly reviewing two additional strategies for coping with such difficult situations: forgoing making decisions and forgetting those decisions altogether. How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
that may be to do. In this article, the authors look at research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and other disciplines and offer practical tactics for leaders hoping to project a healthy amount of both qualities. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers in host-country labor markets and the use of social benefits by immigrants. The survey then considers the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
tax" is one that guarantees a socially desirable distribution of the tax burden, which is of course shaped by the views and beliefs of a country. Ane Damgaard Jensen: Overall, people have different views of what a flat tax is and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate between-establishment and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
positioning boards to think outside of the box,” Groysberg says. Recent research has backed that up, says Cheng. “So many directors are recruited through social networks and informal channels,” she says. “Directors tend to recruit people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of fairness or competition, moving parties on a path toward or away from equal-division agreements. These endogenous framing effects may outweigh any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
uniform and are typically assessed on final goods. However, trends in capital taxation are mixed, and capital income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/column-powerlessness-corrupts/ar/1 Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I explore the possibility that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
investigates dialog and objects in recurrent social practices. Drawing from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne