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  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

of formal authority, but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settle on a shared conception of authority, it is more expansive than their original design. This finding is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701H Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D Authors:Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Earlier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

response in a robust way, using rigorous statistical analysis. Q: In general, what were your conclusions at this stage of your research? A: Previous research on disruptive technology suggested that that challenge was basically one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations using a View Details
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

activity was cyclical in the way that the weather was cyclical with changing seasons. Even the vocabulary of "barometers" and "cycles" was carried over from meteorology to economic prediction. Forecasting, through the use of statistics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

Looming over his colleagues at six feet, seven inches tall, Bos must contract his body more than most of us when operating a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. But many of us constrict our neck and hunch our shoulders when we use our phones. And View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-010.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-083 An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance-2014 Update Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

statistics of two schools, the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Business School. Last year, fully 68 percent of Stanford’s graduates took jobs in the Western United States. Only 39 percent of Harvard graduates remained... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008

client. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We also quantify the flow benefit to the trustee mutual funds of being included in the client firm's 401(k) plan and find that this inclusion has an economically and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

thwart its Level II opponents. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-091_6caacd58-20c1-4257-9be5-204972ad4b4c.pdf December 2014 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Negotiations: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using statistical models, we test and fail to find evidence that small-world structure (cohesive clusters connected by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

South Africa at a rate about one-third of that flowing into Latin America or East Asia. Q: According to the statistics on FDI in your new case, in "all countries" FDI is 2.7 percent of GDP. South Africa is 1.5 percent. A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

analysis"—that with sufficient industry knowledge, market data, and statistical wizardry, "The answer would somehow mysteriously pop out and the right decision would be made. That's just not the way I think the world... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

get-out-the-vote efforts. We do not find any between-party differences in the effectiveness of outside advertising. Lastly, we also find a moderate but statistically significant carryover effect of campaign activities, indicating the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

stakeholder reactions and provide valuable feedback. Once metrics have been developed, data on these indicators must be collected and statistical analysis, such as multiple regression, should be performed to analyze and test the validity... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Periodical:Marketing Letters (forthcoming) Abstract We review the discussion at a workshop whose goal was to achieve a better integration among behavioral, economic, and statistical approaches to choice modeling. The workshop explored how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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