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  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

at one of the most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Section H), Summer Internship: Summer Project Manager, E-liability Institute The E-liability Institute is a not-for-profit organization founded by two HBS professors that are reshaping carbon accounting standards. Their methodology... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

threat responses and their implications for research on identity dynamics within organizations.   Working PapersThe Impact of Supplier Reliability Tracking on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Street earnings occurred around 1991, and (iii) a large number of firm-quarter observations exhibit zero differences between GAAP and Street earnings. We first view the paper as a methodological paper, and discuss how the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

instruction nearly ninety years ago. “The case method will always be a central part of what we do, but we’re now at a point in history when we can do some really interesting things in the field. Both methodologies — case and field — are... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2025
  • Blog Post

The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet

Imagine a place where all electricity comes from clean sources, where most cars are EVs and can be charged on almost every street, where daily hot water for homes and pools is drawn from the depths of the Earth, and where sweet tomatoes can grow even in the starkest... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

physics, medicine, and other disciplines; they study business issues through new lenses and bring a wider range of methodologies to their research. This is a crucial aspect of what makes HBS unique; it means we can bring all these... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

psychological consequences of serving in an advisor role to develop a more comprehensive perspective on the psychology of advising. By connecting this work, which spans various methodologies and theoretical foundations, it advances... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

addressing a particular disease. This methodology produces a list of health priorities for any given country or region. Recently, the team has inputted data from India into the Matrix, and plans are under way to expand its application to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

Brazil. Finding, following the methodology of La Porta et al. (1998), that creditor rights vary too much over time to be determined by legal origin. I propose that the time-variance of investor protections is better explained by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

for a home water purification solution results in more use of the product. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of buyers) from the causal effect of prices (charging more stimulates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We implement the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of law school. Using the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

flag. Q: What are you working on next? A: This paper is a presentation of the methodology and a collection of descriptive statistics. I also have a series of papers that return to the case study of the Korean entrepreneur, characterizing... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

“It’s a very lengthy process, and we continue to look to bring on new partners.” While the refugee and asylum-seeker algorithms have a particular application, Paulson says the methodology can be adapted to solve resource allocation... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 26 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the hypotheses. A: We have found in lots of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark