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  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts

you have to balance the two, you're doing the right thing. Now, if you're in politics and you're making a decision, it obviously has to do with Apollo. But if you are with your family and your kids and your friends and you go out at night... View Details
Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

role of specific economic and political institutions in shaping the business environment and economic growth in emerging markets. It gives answers to the following questions: When will governments define and enforce property rights? When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

have found—millennials prefer practicing yoga to hip hop music. Consumers will be drawn to, and pay for, those distinctions. The same could be said for clients at Bob Vaccaro’s Yoga by Donation, even with its pay-as-you-wish approach.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
  • 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

have built a team with diverse life experiences and viewpoints, and when we evaluate a company for investment, we prefer managements that place value on diversity in their leadership teams. We believe that by actively embracing diverse... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-043.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

operating in preferred ways). We present an incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

studies the direct effects of managers' biases and nonstandard preferences on their decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top V Area Faculty Name Term Quarter... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

day. I spent a lot of time at the library because writing is so solitary and as an extrovert, the extended alone time was always hard for me. I prefer to be around other quietly working people than to write solo!” —Samantha Ettus (MBA... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

into a professionally managed organization at all levels. Second, he wanted to invest in long-term projects that would expand the business. Actualizing his vision was not an easy task given the family conflicts and Lebanon’s economic and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing more intense competition) have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne