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  • 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
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

  Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

assessments when race was less relevant (Study 4). Practical and theoretical implications for interracial interaction are considered. Households' Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf   PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

low-quality users on side M, even though some would be willing to pay the platform access prices. Platforms are more likely to engage in exclusion of low-quality M users when W users place more value on the average quality and less value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

New News

exciting. Michael Aft: We exist because traditional media is struggling. There are perverse incentives tied to the ad-revenue model that have made it challenging to consume high-quality content, and that’s true for everything from general... View Details
Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

friction-often pay too little attention to it in their approach to talent management. By managing language carefully, firms can hire and develop the best employees, improve collaboration on global teams, and strengthen the company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

accounting does, and in terms that are the same no matter what labeling convention one adopts. "We aren't being nihilistic," says Kotlikoff. "There are real government policies that affect the distribution of spending power across and within generations,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of time-varying catering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

large exchange pool (although the worst-case cost is very high), while the cost of failing to guarantee individually rational allocations could be large, in terms of lost transplants. We also identify an incentive compatible mechanism.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

opportunities. While most of the IRA takes the form of incentives and tax credits, there are also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

organization's frontlines and back offices. This new partnership with employees is reinforced with personal and team objectives linked to unit and corporate achievement, and, typically, with a new incentive plan that enables all employees... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

comparing social relations, for instance prebrokering versus postbrokering, reveals a broker’s impact; (d) brokering can influence others’ relationships positively or negatively; and (e) information and incentives are two principal means... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman