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  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • News

Level Up

fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy backpack experienced higher levels of guilt as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

algorithm it generates to predict income levels based on images for which data is unavailable. When the researchers crunched those numbers, they determined that the image analysis could give a much more accurate prediction for income than... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

most SBA lender and borrower fees and temporarily raised the guarantee on its largest loan program to 90 percent. The response was immediate. From February 2009 to September 2010, weekly SBA loan dollar volumes rose more than 90 percent View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

explore three distinct channels through which FDI affects establishment performance: (i) production linkages, (ii) financial linkages, and (iii) multinational networks. Our analysis shows that while multinational-owned establishments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual investor returns on hedge funds and compare them to buy-and-hold fund returns. Our main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

concerned citizens. These case studies strongly portray the challenges that public health faces in our times. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52269 forthcoming Journal of Human Hypertension A Retrospective View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)? Empirical analysis shows that developing countries serving on the board can expect more than double the funding from the IBRD as countries not on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

R. Abstract—This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • Profile

Alice Yang

projects ranging from an analysis of PIH’s clinical outcomes in rural Haiti, editing and publishing a bilingual manual on AIDS treatment in resource-poor settings, overseeing potable water projects for at-risk families in Haiti, and... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

multinational firms. Our analysis shows that the emerging offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Location fundamentals including market access and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne