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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences for gambles versus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
competition. Employees were given three months to find a job in HP and were helped to do so. If they could not find an equivalent level job, they were offered a lower level job. If they preferred not to take that job, they were given... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
demonstrates that underestimating the pleasure of rediscovery leads to time-inconsistent choices: individuals forgo opportunities to document the present but then prefer to rediscover those moments in the future. Underestimating the value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and Clearwater. In recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
private-sector innovations. Second, we take advantage of idiosyncratic rigidities in the rules governing NIH peer review to generate exogenous variation in funding across research areas. Our results show that NIH funding spurs the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
of recent large-scale asset purchases by central banks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53531 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured datasets arise when a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of 1906 further assisted the management of product color in the food business by regulating and endorsing the industry's color control practices. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
personal relationships and the preferences of a few key decision makers. Informal rules get made on how the system operates. Then one day when a firm has grown enough, it discovers that it has a channel footprint. Whether this organically... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the version that does not exclude competitor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
J. Marinich, and Michael D. Shields Abstract—This study examines the effect of psychological contract breach on budgetary misreporting. Psychological contracts are mental models or schemas that govern how employees understand their... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
person offers a substantially higher price. In many cases, that's the right deal structure, because the buyer needs certainty in order to arrange the financing, prepare for the move, etc. But in some cases both the buyer and the seller might View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel