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- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts and provide an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
in equilibrium, that a mandatory sharing setting can result in high-quality products, and that free riding can actually increase profits and consumer surplus. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/vkumar/Papers/COSS.pdf Changing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Georges F. Doriot
strategy for supporting the war effort earned him the rank of Brigadier General. He was an outlier who believed deeply in innovation, disciplined analysis and future focus. He refused to use HBS’s vaunted case method, preferring to... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
Working PapersApplicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis Authors:Juan Alcacer Abstract Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
alternative valuation ratios or perform detailed intrinsic valuation analyses, Wang advises. Specifically: Consider a broad set of metrics. Investors who rely on valuation ratios to identify value stocks should consider a broader View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27
make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
motorists represent the prevalence of “consumer inertia” in the retail gas market. Consumer inertia is the tendency of some customers to buy or continue buying a product, even when superior options exist. Companies that can accurately account for consumer inertia when... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
“Historically, when the government tries to set limits it doesn't work very well.” Say on pay has been a research focus of HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri, who started his career at Stern Stewart & Co specializing in... View Details
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Brett Lindsay Laffel
and other front office personnel with statistical analysis that was used for in-game strategy, salary arbitration, assessment of teams' Player Development programs, and the First-Year Player Draft. The right time for HBS After another... View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to provide evidence on the importance of auditors' reputation for quality in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Around one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented cost-benefit analysis and have reached a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
with oversupply and declining demand and to New World winemakers faced with rising costs and a deteriorating image. But changing Chinese market conditions and consumer preferences required both sets of players to devise new strategies to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Setting Published: February 11, 2009 For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance in organizations. Advocates of goal View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
Analysis from a panel data set of research analysts in investment banks over 1988-1996 reveals that star analysts are more likely than non-star analysts to become entrepreneurs. Furthermore, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
is affecting and, in some cases, upending traditional ways of thinking about and conducting business. Historically, says MacKay, economists have tended to assume that firms have equal capacity to set prices and can therefore change their... View Details