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  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

attribution and dynamics. Although display benefits from attribution, the strong dynamic effects of search call for an increase in search advertising budget share by up to 36% in our empirical context. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

man-made," says Associate Professor Ramana Nanda, who studies entrepreneurial financing issues in the clean energy sector. "Depending on the person I speak to, I try to then make the following two arguments:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • March 2009
  • Article

Loyalty-Based Portfolio Choice

By: Lauren Cohen
I evaluate the effect of loyalty on individuals' portfolio choice using a unique dataset of retirement contributions. I exploit the statutory difference that in 401(k) plans stand alone employees can invest directly in their division, while conglomerate employees must... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Retirement; Decisions; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Business Conglomerates; Compensation and Benefits
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  • April 1999
  • Case

French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

By: David A. Moss
Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France
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  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this acquisition would require outside financing of some sort. Was this the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

from (HBS professor emeritus) Tom McCraw's Creating Modern Capitalism book, wherein Henry Royce is talking about a decision whether to merge Rolls-Royce with Vickers, but "was determined to keep the firm independent." "From a View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

PublicationsFinding Your True North: A Personal Guide Authors:Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig Publication:San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Abstract Based on Bill George's bestselling book True North, this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

candidates: Don't underestimate the importance of likability. Help prospective employers understand why you deserve what you're requesting. Make it clear that they can get you. Understand the person across the table from you. Understand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

another. When e-business burst on the scene, GE's CEO Jack Welch was impressed by the strategy adopted by the CEO of GE's Global Consumer Finance (GCF) division, who realized he was not up to speed in e-business. The CEO identified the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

off if platforms were compatible, the quest for market dominance by competing platform providers prevents them from agreeing to a common standard. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-058.pdf The Economics of Structured View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

more appealing since it comprises a higher-than-normal proportion of women (especially when gymnastics and swimming are featured) compared to typical sports programs. The TV tradition of "up-close-and-personal" human interest stories focusing on athletes'... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes, we show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

gravity the law of integrity just is, and if you violate the law of integrity as we define it, you get hurt just as if you try to violate the law of gravity with no safety device. The personal and organizational benefits of honoring one's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting associate professor in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the U.S. (multiple equilibria). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-059.pdf A Brief Postwar History of U.S.... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-102.pdf Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2010
  • Case

Fidelity Retires in Canada

By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Funds; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retirement; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

case: http://hbr.org/product/outotec-a-project-capture/an/514064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-065 Outotec (B): Action Plan No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/outotec-b-action-plan/an/514065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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