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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

Collegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

purpose to orient a company's activities, lend strategic direction, distinguish the company's activities and position, and infuse meaning and motivation into the efforts and activities of employees. Fourth, the purpose of the corporation and View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 13 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

even with all that money flowing to ads, executives are doing quite a bit of hand-wringing over whether they actually produce sales. Luca and Dai thought they could help answer that question. Besides, previous research measuring impact of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

ordinary citizens' income was cut by a third, vulnerable groups suffered. But more important, fifteen years later, the economy continues to decay, inflation is rampant, and many people continue to suffer. Whatever the outcome of the Greek... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
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  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

voting lines. While currently, committee members were appointed by the governor, a Republican, the new proposal would allow equal representation by both parties. They then asked participants to predict on a 100-point scale how much Republicans would dislike or oppose... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

exhaust gases. The further hope is that regular traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits matter to the people and to the government of Senegal. They have quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad View Details
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university students, completed an online survey that included dispositional... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

an excitement and willingness to explore new insights and new angles on how to explain and cultivate social change within or across organizations. This edited volume will be of interest to an international community that seek to understand how organizations and people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

experiential quality demonstrate better clinical outcomes as measured by length of stay and readmissions, but have worse performance with regard to cost efficiency. This may result in hospitals inability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

of such things as wealth versus income. The survey collected that sort of information so that we could see how different demographics influenced how included people felt on campus, and how much access they felt they had. What aspects of inclusion did you cover?Alexxis:... View Details