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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear to be hard to justify. Yet, in the standard moral hazard model withholding of effort by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and environmental concerns. He recently sat down with Harvard... View Details
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
more than most. What they own, how they dress, what they do. In other words, their consumption behavior becomes an important signaling device to attract efficiently the right set of new friends and acquaintances. It's not so much a matter... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton says. "But that View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward. Publisher's site: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu The Effect of Dividends on Consumption Authors:Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
domestic savings in economic growth has been discounted in the past? How has your research advanced knowledge in this area? Diego Comin: There are several literatures that have studied the relationship between savings and growth. At least... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
extraction, and increased refinancing mortgagors’ consumption by an additional $76 billion. This de facto allocation of credit across mortgage market segments, combined with sharp bunching around GSE eligibility cutoffs, establishes an... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
dynamic strategy that can be employed by firms capable of architectural innovation. The strategy involves using knowledge of the bottlenecks in an architecture together with the modular operator "splitting" to shrink the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
pressure paradox." Here's how it develops: as pressure mounts, team members start driving toward consensus in ways that shut out vital information. Without even realizing it, they give more weight to shared knowledge and dismiss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
(e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests of a deliberative "should" self and an affective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
consumption situation: encountering opportunities for further learning. We argue and show that such opportunities can trigger a feeling-of-not-knowing-it-all (FONKIA), which lowers consumers’ confidence in their mastery of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by J. Dutton and B. Ragins, 265-275. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2006 Abstract White-collar workers increasingly rely on group interaction rather than individual expertise to generate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were exposed (or not) to a View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as collaborative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and render View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
and encourages the continued creation of deep knowledge within the field, as well as collaborative research across disciplines that develops and incorporates insights from service operations. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
Summing Up One of the defining issues in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, NAFTA, has fallen off the radar in the current campaign. This suggests either that many in the U.S. have lost interest in it or, more likely, the subset who visit the HBS Working View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman