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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
explains the painful difference in unemployment rates in Europe and the U.S., providing at least one explanation for the recent riots in France. According to Daniel Gross, one of the important factors contributing to the development of cost-driven, productive service... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
difference in men and women," said Riley, who has worked on the Harvard Law School-based Program on Negotiation. "We were slightly more cooperative, and men slightly more competitive." One more recent negotiation study,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
industry structure in the accompanying case "System-on-a-Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corporation." Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609001 Leading from the Side Harvard Business School Case 409-023 Harriet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
advantages through their social networks," Cohen and colleagues write. "In addition, laws designed to block these types of information pathways can be effective in curbing selective disclosure. The magnitude of our results... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
before and after the policy change. We find that these responses increase significantly after the policy change. These stronger responses partly occur while the review is still ongoing and persist on average for two years. Corroborating these results, we also document... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is perceived to be. In fact, at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
forced to think about something that we used to take for granted. A recent study by the research firm Yankelovich Partners suggests that, while consumers generally want more control over their lives and purchasing decisions, there are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
co-worker; with 150, it can do better than a family member; and with 300, better than a spouse. But then came the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, when that firm got 250,000 Facebook users to voluntarily give them access to their personal data... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
issue," says Raman. (Gordon Brothers Group, an asset disposition firm that frequently handles liquidations, served as an invaluable real world test site and collaborator for the paper's researchers.) Two important facts came to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
participate in the equity markets unless they had a lot of money. In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
in a Chaotic World By: Wheeler, Michael Abstract—A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
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
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
in employment at small firms in high-tech industries, which are a frequent target of patent trolls. By contrast, the laws have no significant impact on employment at larger or non-high-tech firms. Anti-troll... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer 2018 NYU Journal of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
this case: http://hbr.org/search/712459-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case ###-### Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Legal Education What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne