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  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

seed-capital investments or alumni groups. Experiments with other models, whether internal or with partners, provide experience and readiness for future change. Learning from partners, or from corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

consequently, in our operating budgets. In fiscal 2022, Dean Datar launched digital transformation (DTx) as a strategic priority for HBS to accelerate the ways data and technology can be leveraged to enhance the research and teaching View Details
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on social relationships, egocentrism, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of jointly determining product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Screen Grab

Union address in January. YouTube is the biggest, most visible platform for this shorter-form, nontraditional content, but other multichannel networks are springing up to offer a differentiated experience to win viewers. Jason Kilar (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

on how gender stereotypes impact belief updating. Participants in our experiments take tests of their ability across different domains. Absent feedback, beliefs of own ability are strongly influenced by gender stereotypes. We then provide... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

that they are fair. We explore whether children's developing concern with behaving fairly towards others may in part reflect a developing concern with appearing fair to others. In Experiments 1-2, most 6- to 8-year-old children behaved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

simulated whether DPD or NEAD chains would produce more transplants when chain segment length was limited to three transplants and reported that DPD performed at least as well as NEAD chains. As this contrasts with the experience of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Abstract The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

attributes that companies care about. So it's very important that everybody keeps their head about them and don't do anything stupid. On the corporate side, I think the implications that grow out of our thinking suggests that this is a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

attributable to poor decision making by high-affinity syndicates after the investment is made. These results suggest that "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. December 2014 American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and directly View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne