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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley, and Robin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a white-flannel View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future,... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
economic successes of the Allied war economies ensured that the new empires created by the Axis powers did not endure for long. Two models of state-led production—the American and the Soviet—passed the test of total war. Those new models... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Akcigit_Kerr_Growth_Feb2012.pdf Hurry Up and Wait: Differential... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
populations, one expects such attitudes to be sacrosanct and nearly inalterable, perhaps for generations to come. On the other hand, even these attitudes may be informed by social cues that interpret violence in different ways and that signal who in the community... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
classroom. They might learn more and actually give back more to the company than they would with a standard teaching method. People who really like the classroomand the interaction in the classroom are less likely, I think, to enjoy the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
work. Martha Lagace: Why study the press? Why is it important to understand its role? Gregory Miller: I first ran across this question in the classroom when I was teaching cases on standard accounting issues and technical accounting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty ambivalence about the courses’ role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
as far as testing a prototype in Canada before technical problems torpedoed the project. He pursued another promising technology that had been developed in the 1980s by researchers at NYU, but money was a problem: The hedge fund that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
the sustainable sourcing pillar, with its work on farming standards and supplier code as well as its support for local sourcing programs in the growing African market. HEINEKEN's management finds that marketing its achievements in these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops. Actually, my cousins have told me they like this “virtual Sal” better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne