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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
classic feet on desk, hands behind head; then, standing and leaning on one's hands over a desk. Those in the low-power group were posed for the time period in two restrictive poses: sitting in a chair with arms held close and hands... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
aftermath of World War II, government funding for scientific research increased and large corporations followed suit, with firms such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Ford establishing dedicated centralized science labs that put few View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
writers are excluded from the market for earlier-stage ideas, restricting their choices to developing the idea fully or abandoning it; writers who have a choice select better ideas to sell at a later stage and sell worse ideas at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
approaches are not suitable in settings where a material portion of the observations is at the boundaries. Nonlinear methods use restrictive distributional assumptions and employ ad-hoc transformations for observations at the boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
imposes restrictions on individual choice behavior that limit the types of substitution patterns that can be found through empirical analysis, and we raise fundamental questions about when the model can be used to recover individuals'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
practices. We agree with critics that corporate practices, which have significant consequences for society, risk being formulated beyond the reach of democratic accountability. We also concur that such activity warrants caution and requires accountability. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
intermediary provides a benefit to buyers when they purchase from sellers using the intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary will want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
investors in some of the largest renewable projects worldwide, such as Shell’s involvement in NoordZeeWind, the first wind farm with capacity to generate over 100 megawatts, built in the Dutch North Sea. The researchers found no evidence that energy companies are... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
partnerships with providers, because restrictions would turn them off–and thus limit supply. Rover.com teamed up with dog sitters even if they also offered services on a competing platform. Panelists argued that there are bigger issues... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
policies around rent control and restrictions on building heights put in place to preserve San Francisco's character have also limited the amount of housing, forcing up rents and speeding dislocation. Last year, officials responded with a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
research project began in the classroom during my first year as a professor at HBS. In the winter of 2000, my students and I were discussing the financial crises that erupted in Asia during 1997 and 1998. Unlike its neighbors, the government of Malaysia View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
giving an arithmetic average rating based on collective reviews. The problem, Luca says, is that star systems such as these aren't as accurate, or optimal, as they could be. "Arithmetic averages are only optimal under very restrictive... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Third, we provide some new evidence of the recent shift of large U.K. retailers toward smaller retail formats, which followed the introduction of new and more restrictive planning constraints for the opening of large retail stores. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
in their privacy policies, the paper states. The researchers were quick to point out that they were not recommending a restriction of disclosure practices, since "high-disclosure services play an important role in a competitive... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
with a rapid increase in capital commitments have led to less restrictive partnership agreements, large investments in portfolio firms, and higher valuations for those investments. These patterns have led many practitioners to conclude... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
inward FDI. After 1945 many developing governments pursued policies which restricted foreign-owned firms. India and Turkey were among the countries with particularly difficult policy environments. This paper explores why Unilever, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
strengthened by the rise of craft guilds in the sixteenth century. Legal scholars claim it was not until the Industrial Revolution that courts began to routinely enforce restrictions on employee mobility, though they generally held that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
people's perceptions over time." Survey respondents also answered questions about how much they agreed with a variety of restrictive public policy measures, including closing schools, shutting down nonessential shops, and imposing... View Details