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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we examine how activating one’s social network can contribute to the impact of academic research and what factors lead researchers to utilize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
find remedies. We may have a flurry of new regulations here and there, but we won't have genuine solutions for these problems that are not only causing scandals but are also hurting the performance of the economy. Koehn: Board performance and the culture of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
the proportion of high-quality users in the overall M population and on their cost advantage in joining the platform, relative to low-quality M users. The net effect of these two factors is ambiguous: it generally depends on whether they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
how those processes get institutionalized into a unique culture. Located in the Free State of Saxony in the eastern part of Germany (the former GDR), AMD's investment in the region leverages a historic and rather unique skill base in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
distinctions between "reorganization" and "liquidation." We examine the drivers of M&A activity, based on factors specific to Chapter 11 as well as more general factors that drive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
to post on the site any government data that does not have national security or privacy concerns. That's a lot of data. Anything that can be put online should be put online." Pros And Cons In class, participants who had read the case pointed to a wealth of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
because of a caregiving conflict by a factor of two than a bottom-quartile worker. And that 25 percent to 35 percent cost of replacing a worker goes to 100 percent or more of annual compensation if you’re talking about a top-quartile... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
of equity (or factor models) fail to exhibit systematic predictive power internationally, which is due in large part to functional form, rather than earnings-forecast, errors. LPV models derived using common valuation anchors such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
external factors play a surprising role in strategy formulation and execution. As Gilbert explains, "A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
in choosing between a traditional mode (where the firm takes control of service provision) and a platform mode (where professionals retain control over service provision). The choice of mode is determined by the need to balance two-sided moral hazard problems arising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
factor when it comes to credit,” says Sean, “but of course not everyone is going to be comfortable with that as a perceived risk. I think it’s a misplaced concern, however—and it’s given us an edge in accessing that market.” Over time, he... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
To develop more effective approaches, he is looking at chemical-manufacturing safety disputes, pollution permit-trading, redevelopment of distressed urban areas, hazardous waste site location problems, and intracorporate negotiation over View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace