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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
edited by Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007 No abstract available. Governance in the Global Information Economy Author:F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Chap. 11 in Managing Global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... 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... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
rules for implementing the new technologies. First, it is necessary to create a receptive culture in order to prepare the way for new practices. Second, a common platform must be created to allow for a collaboration infrastructure. Third, an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
created. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55573 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract— We use an experiment to show that employers View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
(September-October 2011) Abstract For many decades the cornerstone of corporate reporting has been financial information that is presented in a company's annual, semi-annual, and quarterly reports. These comprehensive financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can be learned? First, direct... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
associated with R&D investment are uncertain, the past track records of firms may give insight into their potential for future success. We show that a long-short portfolio strategy that takes advantage of the information in past track... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Accounting Review The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how language barriers affect the capital market reaction to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
time, skilled negotiators are careful not to let agreement or avoidance of conflict become ends in themselves. No agreement is preferable to a bad agreement. The best negotiators never get so caught up in the process that they lose sight... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel