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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies (ERP) derived from a log-linear present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

buys significantly outperform its recent sells around subsequent earnings announcements. We find that mutual fund trades also forecast EPS surprises. The point estimates suggest that skilled trading around earnings announcements, deriving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

plan," he writes. Instead, his book can "be used to derive practical conclusions of the most conservative as well as the most radical complexion."14 With his typical intellectual curiosity, Schumpeter strays in Business... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

prospects of females. However, Edlund (1999) proposes an (as yet untested) theory that, in environments where hypergamy is practiced and parents derive utility from married children, a male-skewed sex ratio can generate a permanent female... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

in studying these complex social systems. I have made a deliberate choice to focus primarily on research that reflects firsthand experience with boards rather than on research that utilizes data derived from questionnaires and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

company was still dealing with multiple purported class action and derivative lawsuits that had been filed against it. It was during this time the board started looking for candidates both for the CEO and chairman positions. In December... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including the deficit, taxes, and transfer payments, are economically ill-defined. Instead these measures reflect the arbitrary labeling of underlying fiscal conditions. Analyses based on these and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Administration, and Steven N. Kaplan (PhD BE 1988) 79834 Edward Elgar Publishing This advanced introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

develop an inductive theory of "IP modularity," from which we derive testable propositions and managerial implications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-097.pdf Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset pricing model is used to derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting pay too much? Was it real? Did it matter? The sale of Leonardo's painting allows students to reengineer brand equity to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Abstract—Endoscopic/Colonoscopic procedures are done either with gastroenterologist-administered conscious sedation or with anesthesia-administered sedation with propofol. Anesthesia-administered sedation has medical and patient benefits but is more expensive to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

decoupling of the sources of value participants derive from any one experience—together open up the executive education industry to a radical restructuration. We argue that any consequential strategic action on the part of providers must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive structure as input and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

and lower their ambitions when rejected. We derive the comparative statics with respect to the sellers' initial reputation, the probability of fortuitous disclosure, the sellers' self-knowledge and impatience, and the concentration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

by strong-arming others. Many write it off as inherently corrupt or “dirty” and want nothing to do with it. But as pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro deftly show in Power, for All, power is the ability to influence someone else’s behavior. This... View Details