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  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

serve all patients, all needs, and through all channels." Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex,... View Details
Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Cure All

Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex, multiproduct organization, and spreading your resources everywhere might... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3

negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

themselves as well as their managers believe that top performance in this industry is due to individual talent. This could be one reason that there is a great deal of mobility in this labor market. Stars are treated as free agents who can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract This paper examines whether staggered boards reduce firm value or are merely associated with it due to the tendency of low-value firms to maintain staggered boards. To analyze this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However, exponential technological progress... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a causal relationship between patented inventions and long-run economic growth and outline a basic framework for analyzing key macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

the Azerbaijan and Brazil presidencies to ensure that international cooperation is catalyzed in upcoming NDCs.” Madeleine Kline, Harvard Medical School “One of the main reasons I wanted to go to COP28 was because it had the first ever... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

and how to measure it. This depends on two critical factors: how much they know about causality in their interventions, and how much of their environment they can reasonably control," Ebrahim says. "Based on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Further, we examine the causal impact of homophily on team performance. Homophily in ethnicity increases team performance by lifting teams in bottom quantiles to median performance quantiles, but it does not increase the chance of being... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures. Q: Why does business history research remain in a silo? A: I think there are at least three reasons. First, business historians often write big books on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

of crimes that do not directly steal from the company, and at smaller companies. While economic reasons could explain these associations, we show that gender and frequency of crimes moderate the relation between punishment severity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse causality by exploring the regional pattern and process of agglomeration. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on movie sales is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace