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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
approach found only in Gulati, Mayo, and Nohria's Management. This unique text demonstrates how success within a constantly changing business environment requires a clear understanding of the interactive and dynamic nature of strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
funding. The natural experiment created by this tax reform shows that, contrary to popular belief, a certain efficiency exists in the market when it comes to which businesses get off the ground and which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
natural experiment where you take a population of people—namely, the inventors in Michigan before the law changed—and then you subject them to this shift in enforcement," Fleming explains. “Policy makers in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
States since 1970. We find that waiting periods reduce gun homicides by roughly 17%. We provide further support for the causal impact of waiting periods on homicides by exploiting a natural experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
we utilize a natural experiment to show that the effect of relationship bank lending, intensity on takeover probability is not driven by endogeneity issues. Finally, we investigate reasons motivating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
household debt were growing quickly. That combination is “a natural signal of an outward shift in the supply of credit, which then sows the seeds of its own destruction,” the researchers write in their working paper Predictable Financial... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
believes merchants who consider adopting Apple Pay will naturally wonder: What do we get out of this? And they will specifically want to know if they will be asked to pay higher fees than credit card companies are charging?... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
access the results of that study, she may be less inclined to repeat it," he says. "This reduction in duplication can lead to lower costs without harming quality." Productivity losses are not inevitable, and not every small practice will View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth: companies large and small are shuttering more quickly than ever. What does it take to buck this trend? One answer is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frequency and concentrate on a narrow selection of genres, regularly opt for obscure products likely not available in bricks-and-mortar stores. Casting doubt on the "democratizing" nature of online channels, however, I also show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California By: Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—For companies with strong internal occupational safety and health auditing programs, OSHA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
interesting how you start out with a team and then you need to upgrade. Our experience is that if it's a choice between deep, deep experience versus the natural athlete, we... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
expenditures, general consumer inability to budget and forecast, bank incentives, and community norms and social capital. Furthermore, using both national data and a natural experiment, we find that access to payday lending seems to lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
into an integrated real estate financial advisory firm," he said. The 1999 sale of Boston Financial's $8 billion Real Estate Institutional Advisory Practice to the Lend Lease Corporation was extremely successful from a financial standpoint, he added, but the View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
series of experiments in the HBS Computer Lab for Experimental Research. The results showed that the key to success in grabbing and holding the attention of viewers lies in evoking a carefully timed mixture of surprise and joy. (The... View Details