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  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

institutional pressures. In this chapter, we present current research arguing that such firms adopt heterogeneous sets of environmental management practices despite facing common institutional pressures because organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for common View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) may feel legally constrained... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

to express their feelings, exchange information, and act in ways that previously were unheard of. Several recent writings suggest that the next phase in the activation of customers will be putting them to work in the service of an organization. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trends. Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We study adaptation to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

principles and practices. Quelch and Jocz lay out the six fundamental characteristics that marketing and democracy share: (1) exchange of value, such as goods, services, and promises, (2) consumption of goods and services, (3) choice in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

deeds well as compared to performing bad deeds poorly. Moreover, the results illuminate how the characteristics of an unethical behavior can interact to influence the emulation and diffusion of that behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

using, respectively, pre-migration settlements and their interaction with MSA geographic characteristics that affect the cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal externality on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

safety. “Surprisingly, income and housing prices had little correlation with improvement” Next, they obtained Street View images from the same streets captured in 2007 and 2014. After algorithmically removing image pairs containing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

increased self-employment by 15%. Monte Carlo evidence suggests the technique significantly reduces bias and Type-1 Error. SCHIP increased incorporated ownership by 36% and business share of household income by 12%, implying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

hospital, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that frontline workers' participation in problem solving is motivated by some inherent characteristics of the problems as well as by particular management practices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have debated the relative importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

and Singapore grew in double digits at the beginning of their economic ascent but slowed, while Chile, Ireland, and South Korea didn't appear on the double-digit chart at all.) In the report Werker identified shared characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

technological characteristics of the innovation and at the potential business model by which the innovation might be brought to market. Overserved customers consume a product or service but don't need all its features or functionality. A... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed.   Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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