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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
download available at this time. Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
complementors varies across empirical settings. It identifies several future research directions that can help advance our understanding of the relationships between platform owners and complementors. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced when the borrowing firm is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
2014 Journal of Advertising Research Pitfalls and Fraud in Online Advertising Metrics: What Makes Advertisers Vulnerable to Cheaters, and How They Can Protect Themselves By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—How does online advertising become less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
Effective Self-Policing Authors: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Publication: Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Abstract Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
authors will examine these and other major events in which Henry Kissinger played leading roles in order to extract their most important insights into the principles and practice of effective negotiation. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29
possibility, in light of the lessons of the Kursk submarine rescue failure. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-003_f69cf9de-5517-4355-95c4-5555674a37ee.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first principle, Reminding, emphasizes the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
Publications May 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations By: Brown, Daniel, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—We explore the role of the corporate leader... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel