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- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
earnings on a more timely basis than "good" news using a regression of earnings on returns. We examine the asymmetric timeliness estimation procedure and identify properties that result in biased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
well-informed about what will make someone successful, or it could be that they are hiring someone from their hometown”—or any number of other biases that have nothing to do with job performance. To test this, Li View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Bazerman Abstract Previously titled "Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation. This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
Summing Up The blinkers commenting on this month's column have it. But not without some strong caveats. All of which raise added questions. But what did you expect? Most readers and non-readers of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
proposes that team reflexivity-a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes-can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
PublicationsTransnational Management: Text, Cases and Readings in Cross-Border Management Authors:Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish Publication:Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2011 Abstract Transnational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
heuristics used by early-stage investors in high-potential ventures,” says Professor Ramana Nanda, who serves as the project’s co-director with finance professors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner. The work... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
PublicationsChallenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century Authors:Gerald Rosenfeld, Jay W. Lorsch, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
In the wake of the financial crisis, many once-esoteric investment terms have become a familiar part of our vocabulary. The role of structured finance securities such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), for example, and the part... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
and TripAdvisor contain hundreds of millions of consumer reviews; online marketplaces also rely on reputation systems to facilitate trust between strangers. Economists help companies design reputation systems, “focusing on understanding... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
unfolded, without the usual biases and distortions that come from 20/20 hindsight. The story of how Levy tilled the soil for change provides lessons for any CEO in a turnaround situation. [...] Reinforcing... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
credible prospect of an attractive return on the assets required to create and expand the model. . . . Implications The biases introduced by an established business model can cut two ways. First, as noted... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
often work directly with the companies they study. I then survey the factors that influence the quality of UGC. Quality is influenced by factors including promotional content, peer effects between contributors, biases of contributors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne