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  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA7), forthcoming Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we lack a formal theory and model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

college system, and then you had the employer connection, with IBM. How did you structure the program and make it appeal to these different parties? Litow: To bring about change, you have to have a conscious change strategy. If you expect... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper tests the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

happiness gains above those that were already in place once the 1960s' standard of living had been achieved. However in the poorest half of nations we cannot reject the null hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized contributions. Trouble arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

shift in academic thinking about the role of government may be required-involving nothing less than a reversal of the prevailing null hypothesis in the study of political economy. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

at the networks of interlocking boards of directors of major joint stock companies in Brazil and Mexico in 1909. We test whether in Mexico businessmen relied more on networks and other informal arrangements to do business than in Brazil. In Brazil, we View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term costs: when predicting future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

measure of "naive" cost expectations which excludes any indication of the occurrence of review periods. In general, cost reports in excess of naive cost expectations have a negative effect on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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