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  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

Brazil. Finding, following the methodology of La Porta et al. (1998), that creditor rights vary too much over time to be determined by legal origin. I propose that the time-variance of investor protections is better explained by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the analytical rigor and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

decision analysis. Drawing from each of these fields but methodologically distinct from them, negotiation analysis has mainly adopted an "asymmetrically prescriptive/descriptive" orientation. It develops the best possible advice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The corporate governance literature of the past decade has focused on identifying drivers of superior or deficient corporate governance. One of the most rigorous View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

higher for generalists. Free samples have little effect on any type of physician. We also introduce a key methodological innovation to the marketing and economics literature. We show that moment conditions—typically used in traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Matrix's management team wonders whether the recent market volatility presents an opportunity to add to their existing long position. This case highlights a variety of methodologies to valuate a high-growth company in the tech sector and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

FRM to the study of managerial compensation. We conclude that the FRM provides an improved methodological approach to the study of bounded dependent variables. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49493... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

restaurant reviews with Yelp's algorithmic indicator of fake reviews. Using this imperfect indicator as a proxy, we develop an empirical methodology to identify the points in the life cycle of a business during which review fraud is most... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light two-step estimator. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological standards are critical to inform the debates about this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

to areas which were relatively better off. The results and research method could aid in understanding, explaining, and perhaps preventing civil war elsewhere. "We are filling in a methodological hole," says Iyer of their paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

threat responses and their implications for research on identity dynamics within organizations.   Working PapersThe Impact of Supplier Reliability Tracking on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Street earnings occurred around 1991, and (iii) a large number of firm-quarter observations exhibit zero differences between GAAP and Street earnings. We first view the paper as a methodological paper, and discuss how the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2011
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Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

a methodology developed by Bratu and Barnhart to estimate the corresponding passenger delays. Some of their findings confirm what veteran travelers have often suspected, while others offer surprising insights. Some highlights and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

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