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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

effects, we look within multinational firms and show that higher levels of bilateral trust between the multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using religious and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

women in the workplace. Such stereotypes have been used for decades by majority groups to hold people back and put them down for their race, ethnic origins, sexual preferences, and religion, as well as their gender. The aftermath of the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

market participants on key characteristics and significantly increase their equity exposures over the sample period. The introduction of retail structured products thereby raises both the likelihood and the extent of stock market... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

about government policies and consumer attitudes about the CEO’s company. We conclude by providing a roadmap for future research on this emerging phenomenon. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763 Contextual Knowledge and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable characteristics of the graduates. Given this assignment protocol, I find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

outline other factors such as local ethnic and religious heterogeneity, the institutional legacies of colonialism and serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

these executives have higher affect-based trust in overseas partners of the same cultural ethnicity as themselves; cognition-based trust is associated with affect-based trust differently when overseas partners are of the same or different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have debated the relative importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative work, especially in settings where intellectual property protection is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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