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  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

coordination as measured by the value of integrated production is negatively correlated with delegation. Surprisingly, absolute size of the firm is negatively related to delegation. The overall pattern of results highlights the need for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

MaterialsChina in Africa: The Case of Sudan Harvard Business School Case 308-060 This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609002 Business and Human Rights Harvard Business School Note 309-097 This note addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the relation between human rights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

just have automatic deductions from their paychecks, and it either goes directly to an organization they care about it, or it goes directly into a separate account that they then use and that account is specifically for giving related. It has, you know—and they've made... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

people to donate directly to the organizations fighting COVID on-ground in India in return offering consultations related to the MBA journey, including assisting with GMAT/GRE prep, school selection, application planning, and essay... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

Proceedings, pp 11-16, 2002) Abstract In this study, we explore how multiple signals related to entrepreneurial companies at the time of their initial public offering (IPO) influence the firms' ability to acquire non-financial resources... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

external funds. Conditional on issuance of new debt, we interpret firms' switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times characterized by tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. Using a laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

difficult tasks. Second, overestimation of ability by both men and women varies across categories. To understand these patterns, we develop a model that separates gender stereotypes from misestimation of ability related to the difficulty... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Empirically, we find that an author's connection to the media outlet is related to the outcome of the review decision. When a book's author also writes for a media outlet, that outlet is 25% more likely to review the book relative to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel