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  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

tested whether the subsidies were associated with differential attendance and weight loss over 12 months, as might be predicted by the expectation that they attract employees with differing degrees of motivation. Analysis and Results:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

KindredHarvard Business School Case 511-015 For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book offers a path-breaking historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

against U.S. cotton subsidies—and a trend analysis of over 400 total WTO disputes, I argue that the WTO dispute process is helping to legitimize the institution of free trade through its public display of rational authority and neutral... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

consumer surplus by making the gray market less competitive domestically. Under certain circumstances, the domestic welfare destruction arising from this erosion dominates the domestic welfare gains that accompany a shift to arm's length transfer pricing. Finally, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

origins of the social psychology of creativity, trace its arc, and suggest directions for its future. Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation Authors:Cynthia Barnhart, Douglas S. Fearing, Amedeo Odoni, and Vikrant Vaze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

source software (OSS) over proprietary software in an attempt to reduce costs creating an unexpected demand shock for OSS. Analysis using the rest of the EU as controls via difference-in-differences and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academics are uniquely suited to play, says Karen Mills, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS. “When I went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2014
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Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

the safety of its gas cans. Thus it is quite likely that Blitz would have brought a safer gas can to the marketplace. This comparative analysis of these two counterfactuals suggests that Walmart was the driving force in unsafe gas cans... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

certification strategy, in which they apply to a demanding but non-transparent certifier and lower their ambitions when rejected. We derive the comparative statics with respect to the sellers' initial reputation, the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

head CT order, time from head CT order to head CT scheduled, time from head CT scheduled to head CT completed, and time from head CT completed to head CT preliminary report), each process was the bottleneck 30%, <1%, 27%, and 42% of the time, respectively.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

Inkpen Abstract—The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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