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  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

impacts applications even among academically stronger students. Finally, athletic success effects are greater at public schools than at private schools. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44101 Do Bonuses Enhance Sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

how personal taxes affect CEOs' decision to sell their vested equity and compare it against diversification, managerial overconfidence and other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. While CEOs frequently sell large amounts of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

through a third previously unexamined effect: dynamic consumer segmentation. Our results, therefore, contradict prior static models: bundling can be profitable even when consumer valuations for components are highly correlated. In the absence of bundling, both hardware... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

and time costs. Organic wine finally attained niche popularity in the 2010s, mainly in northwest Europe and in cosmopolitan global cities elsewhere, as fine-dining restaurants like Noma sought wines with clear terroir. Organic wine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five attributes of these teams that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Abstract—Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain-an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Russian conglomerate that has become the third largest shareholder in SUN Interbrew, has announced its intention to take part in the company's management and attain a leading position in the Russian beer market. Is there a role for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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