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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich project-level data from the U.S. film industry, we exploit variation in property right allocations, investment choices, and film... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
she gathered additional data by examining the prospectuses of all public biotech firms over a twenty-year period. The 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives whose career histories she and Gulati analyzed formed the core of their... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
detailed data about H-1B applications, says Kerr. "It's an unfortunate event that as the H1-B issue has become more controversial, the amount of available data has shrunk.") “The debate has gotten to the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
competence, transparency, and identification) will be relevant to which stakeholder type. We test the predictions of our framework using original survey data from 1,298 respondents across four stakeholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
and donate part of the proceeds to a charity to feed the hungry. Not all PWYW strategies are created equal, however. Santana investigated data from a pet adoption agency in New York, finding that on average patrons paid close to the $150... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This paper develops... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
distributional issues, and the likely effects of reforms to tax provisions such as the AMT are considered. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14149 Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles Authors:Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
of assessing ability and reliability," says Chua. "Affective trust is trust that comes from the 'heart.' This type of trust involves considerable emotional investments." To test the relationship between those two types of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55541 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
financial resources increase the benefits of partner-specific experience. Finally, we predict that the value of partner-specific experience will increase under high levels of firm-specific uncertainty. We test these hypotheses with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
firms: approximately 35,000 plants in 86 different manufacturing industries. The sheer amount of data allowed her to test for incremental versus radical innovation among firms in a unique way. For... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
to do by care providers and payers. Consumer empowerment in health care is nowhere as advanced as it is in the travel industry and financial services, for example. Doctors are not especially interested in providing transparent data about... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
higher-priced items first can simultaneously increase the average selling price and the overall purchase rate. We test these predictions in a series of field experiments conducted with an online fashion and apparel retailer. Using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
signals, we consider the influence of singular sector-level triggers, which we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne