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  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

to incorporate that know-how. By carefully measuring and observing, they figured out the right temperatures and pressures and devised molds or handling devices to produce the right shape, or the right sequence of temperatures to heat,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson Abstract—We demonstrate that widely used View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

each complementing the other. Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract : We construct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Sokoloff's influential study of trade in invention in the United States, our quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups than to other core dealers. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these trades. We show that these brokers’ best clients tend to predate on the liquidating funds: at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

established processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of nonfinancial information. Finally, High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

CEOs are retained in a sample of mergers in the 1990s, we find greater retention of better-performing and higher-paid CEOs—both measures of valuable human capital. We also show that the performance-retention link is stronger when the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

the value of their information intermediation function. The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study Author:Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management 19, no. 5... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time. In characterizing these networks, our primary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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