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  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the likelihood that at least one competitor will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

according to the organization’s long-term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

regularly contacted Deshpande "to see where his head was at." Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-015 Eureka Forbes Ltd.: Managing the Selling Effort (A) (Photonovel Version)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

concentration without co-locating. The final layer examines why some firms are more inclined to co-locate than others based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

economic growth in industrial countries began to slow down. All of a sudden companies found that they couldn't do everything. They had to make some choices and needed a way to think about it. The economics of strategy seems to be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

employers offer fitness programs and healthy menu choices in company cafeterias, sometimes at lower prices than the less healthy alternatives. To promote screening and management of chronic conditions, employers are moving to on-site... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

need to spend more effort helping new consumers find the right products. On the other hand, these new customers might be less familiar with the return process and take more time to find the right product to avoid it. To shed light on this... View Details
Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

micro-interactions comprising a negotiation are shaped by the representation structure (principals, agents, or teams) of the parties. In qualitative and quantitative analyses of negotiations carried out by principals, agents, and teams in a laboratory experiment, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical solution to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

how to build stronger institutions of governance. The leadership and values initiative we launched is an important part of our effort to do that. We build on a very strong foundation of research, course development, and teaching begun... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

from the U.S. South after 1910. Black arrivals increased both the effort exerted by immigrants to assimilate and their eventual Americanization. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: while initially less integrated groups... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment. A negative value of concealment is possible and represents the event that rationally acting consumers respond to the additional uncertainty by purchasing fewer products. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

acquisition—underperform. Working paper not available. Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra Abstract We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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