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  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager's information more valuable, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky asset’s return distribution or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

condition, made chocolate more flavorful, valuable, and deserving of behavioral savoring. Experiment 2 demonstrated that random gestures do not boost consumption like ritualistic gestures do. It further showed that a delay between a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

stock price is suffering because of delayed and disappointing results. Removing the controller, however, is proving difficult because he is related to the company's founder. What approaches can the investor take to deal with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after 18-month publication. Licensing delays are reduced by about 10 months, on average, after AIPA's enactment. These findings suggest a hitherto unexplored benefit of the patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

this platform needs to be. We were surprised by how many firms pay inadequate attention to this area, causing major problems. Consider the Airbus 380, which had been delayed for 2 years, in part because 2 partners used different versions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

findings of other studies, wealth has become more concentrated since the 1970s. Basel Needs a Firm Hand and Fewer Delays Authors:David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein Publication:Financial Times, September 13, 2010. (Editorial) An abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

whom the order of information revelation does not influence subsequent behavior. The effect was robust across settings with and without forgone payoffs and when the consequences for risk taking are delayed until the end of the experiment.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

islands.) But the delays and costs involved nearly killed the company, which survived only with support from the WPTO. Capital expenditures for sources of marine energy are another stumbling block. The equipment that is required to... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

right now. And the weather and the terrain are an increasingly dangerous factor. And so I had to make the very heart-wrenching decision to delay for 24 hours and let the sun rise again and set again before we attempted to rescue people... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

imminent. ViaGen CEO Mark Walton needs to develop different business plans to commercialize cloning technology in pigs, cattle, and horses, all of which have a different industry structure. At the same time, he must consider what to do if the announcement is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

now, the medical record resides with providers, and one provider can request the record from another. That is a very cumbersome and inefficient system, which creates delay and duplication. Health plans should also inform and advise... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

there are major benefits to working for an institution whose stakeholders are not shareholders. Bob Fri notes one such advantage when discussing the NMNH's opening of one of its newest exhibit halls. After several delays and despite a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

Subramanian Abstract We measure the value of shareholder proxy access by using a recent development in the ability of shareholders to nominate candidates for board seats. We use the SEC's October 4, 2010 announcement that it would significantly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne