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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

something new to spur on their employees. According to Beer, managers in many companies look to pay-for-performance for good reasons. They expect that it will attract and motivate people. They expect performance standards will outweigh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

prescribe these medicines for their Black patients rose by a “medically meaningful” one standard deviation. It was the kind of result that would be expected if physicians had been told that the drug’s View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel people have a high sensitivity to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, Chanel's designs wrapped high and low cultural references into beautiful yet practical clothing and jewelry for women of Europe and the Americas. In their articulation of clean, classic lines, her designs set a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its trunk is a hose. All View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

Harmonization Author:Karthik Ramanna Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

sheets with participants' self-reported performance." The students learned that they would each receive a Scrabble dictionary to check their work, after which they would fill out an answer sheet to report their performance. But... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

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