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  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

causes considerable societal damage, as demonstrated by increasing empirical evidence. Drawing on recent research in moral psychology and behavioral ethics, I examine "moral flexibility," or the common ability to justify one's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Customer Compatibility and Service Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility—the degree of fit between the needs of individual customers and the capabilities of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who shield agencies from legitimacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine their impact on firm boundaries. Our empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

strategic, financial, and operational objectives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51110 May 2016 Oncology How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United States: Has Value for Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage of the vendor's accelerating commission... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

counterparts. The empirical evidence presented in the chapter demonstrates that diversified business groups can add value in mature markets such as Britain. Even the much-criticized conglomerates of the 1970s-1990s were quite successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is perceived to be. In fact, at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and organization of the market when a match was operating and when it was not. After the GI match ended,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

vary in their propensity to violate MAP policies and the depth by which they do so. Our inductive research approach documents managerial wisdom about MAP practices. We confront these insights from practice with a large empirical study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to 2012, we find support that this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

advertising be effective? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique data set from Cyworld, this study View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

interesting to see in the classroom. We were talking about fast fashion from a supply chain perspective in my Technology and Operations Management course. And in the middle of class a student raises his hand and says, “Aren’t we going to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

Norway, cartels received support from the Norwegian government when they were deemed to be beneficial to Norwegian economic interests. The legislation was used to foster the development of domestic cartels, while at the same time it was employed as a tool to limit the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 01 Feb 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

then the obvious answer (to the question) is NO!" Other comments emphasized values of small business for management development. David Lindsay commented that " managers evolve their wisdom through responsibility and decision-making which is far more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett