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  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp Abstract—Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally available weight management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

Vallée explains. To that end, he and Célérier set out to quantify talent. To do so, they capitalized on data from French engineering schools. Measuring Talent In France, students are selected for engineering programs based solely on their national ranking in a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

Links" or "Advertisements"?: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors: Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Abstract In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments. A variety of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Measure Economic Activity at Scale By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity at scale? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau have long... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

materials required for both the MBA and Master of Science applications. Required for MBA: Application form, resume, official transcript(s), essay, official standardized test scores, two recommendations,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

and WorldCom. I think all of us felt a sense of downright anger. From the School's perspective, these events reinforced in my mind the importance of the work we have been doing for many years. At HBS, we have a long-standing commitment to upholding the highest View Details
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

firms must wait for the pace of user innovation to slow down and the design space to be "mined out." We also show that innovative user-manufacturers and mass-market firms can share the market for a long time. That's the standard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

An Eye to the East

auditing standards in China, while Associate Professor Huang Yasheng closed the first session with a detailed briefing of his ongoing study of foreign-invested enterprises on the mainland. The afternoon concluded with an open discussion... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Although the data allow only some suggestive tests of rival hypotheses to explain long-run technological persistence, we find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these theories apply to new venture firms? A: Agency theory is the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

prevention-focused questions. We demonstrate that every additional prevention-focused question significantly hinders the entrepreneur's ability to raise capital, fully mediating gender's effect on funding. By experimentally testing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

standard errors, balanced panel). Three subsequent experiments involving American and Indian participants established the causal effect of psychologically experiencing a polluted vs. clean environment on unethical behavior. Consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in View Details
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

principals. Educators whose students performed well on standardized tests received bonuses and public recognition; educators whose students fell short received reprimands, warnings, and eventually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Heterogeneity and Redistribution Authors:Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Preferences over consumption and leisure play no role in the standard optimal tax model, which attributes all variation in earnings to differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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