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  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance of an under-performing company than on grooming leadership within the company. A famous CEO was preferred over a low-profile CEO, as the former was seen as a boost to public and investor confidence—and share prices—fast. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 02 Jan 2012
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publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? This paper sets out to help small businesses decide whether it makes sense to offer discount vouchers. Research was conducted by Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman, Business View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

  PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
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Accounting Information as Political Currency

total—were more likely to understate their earnings in the two quarters prior to the election. Such "downward earnings management," as it is known in accounting, seems to have been motivated by the desire of contributing firms to not taint View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

is how state and federal law has acted to both facilitate and constrain political movements. The fair trade movement cannot be dismissed as nostalgic or simply pro-business because their efforts contributed to a progressive movement to expand state powers into View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

hospitals’ use of managing accruals or cutting discretionary expenditures. Next, I find that hospital managers prefer overbilling to managing accruals (cutting discretionary expenditures) when cutting discretionary expenditures (managing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

telecom business. The panelists responded that there is not much distinction between the types of value VCs add. They are, in general, quite cautious as a result of an obvious shakeout in service and the inevitable shakeout in equipment. While most of the panelists... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

in the world. Productivity was stagnant and economic growth had slowed down significantly since the 1990s. What should Velasco do amid growing public discontent? Was it really in Chile's best interest to keep saving the copper wealth?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

understands his side's massive advantages in the process. With the economic fate of Welz's newly public smaller firm in the balance, Welz and his team must figure out how to handle some very tough tactics by Spitzer and his minions aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama to influence my View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

sustainable change in particular-can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

mistakes. But there is another approach: alter the environment in ways that encourage people to make decisions that lead to good outcomes. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/05/leaders-as-decision-architects April 2015 American View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

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