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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Getting the Message

new technologies and their ability to shadow an individual's online choices and habits are troubling to many observers. The use of technologies such as cookies -- programs that unobtrusively keep track of a visitor's previous View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

even well-intentioned practitioners just may not have the skill set to properly implement the standards. In the study of international adoption of standards I mentioned previously, one of the things we find is that oversight by a regulator who is View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

facilities at the sites). I thought this example perfectly demonstrated the choice individuals, businesses, and governments have on hand: do you choose to mitigate and adapt to climate change and grow in the face of this challenge, or do... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

the perspective of the significant others who have come to campus with their students. Partners are often active members of the HBS community, involved in clubs, section events and may even audit classes. Therefore, students with... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2019
  • News

Reframing Modern Art

exposure to curators and how they work and how exhibitions come together. All of these things just kind of fed into a growing curiosity, spending more and more of my free time participating in these activities on a very limited basis,... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

  Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

curriculums-theory creep, mission creep, doing well by doing good, and the quest for enlightenment-are teaching students to be uncompetitive in today's global markets. If this hypothesis is true, I argue that business school curriculums should be re-centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

index-based benchmarks perform 14% worse in their time-series return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms' choices of specific peers only modestly underperform. Calibration estimates suggest that, in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance-for restoring itself and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical solution to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace