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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
research grant for the purpose of identifying the error rate, this idea was decidedly unwelcome. My interpretation of the data suggested that we might not be finding the definitive error rate—and further errors might be systematically... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
held up because of its interpretation as a tax. If you think about the environment, you think about provisions that are associated with oil and gas, drilling, natural resource extraction. If you think about the M&A market, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
alleviates the inefficiency. In the experiment, providing social information on success is ineffective. While voters with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to be de-biased by such information, most voters do not seem to interpret... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and earned her B.A. in Communication and a certificate in Spanish Translation and Interpretation from Barry University in Florida. Kyra Gaunt Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. is a well-known ethnomusicologist, a singer-songwriter, and a social media... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down. The general point is that one can... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and to interpret results from running codes into insights useful for decision makers in business. HOW DID THIS EXPERIENCE IMPACT YOUR CAREER... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and interpreting the results of time equations. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and that’s what I’m working on. In the course... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
applicable rules, we find that outside advisors are most effective at excluding the responsible affiliates-which we interpret as a benefit of specialization. However, in-house staff are more successful at identifying and excluding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
political risk. When it comes to territory, there will be some differences of opinion among geologists, I think, in interpreting the shape, structure, and composition of certain parts of the Arctic Ocean floor. Some experts have said the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
windfall ended, and the recipient countries experienced a significant uptick in civil war. To provide a causal interpretation we leverage a quasi-natural experiment of oil price induced aid disbursements that favored Muslim countries over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
when taken on board by the president and Democrats. Roberts' decision rested on an interpretation of the mandate as a tax. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714029-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
identify two dimensions that help to explain experts' organizational influence: their ability to (a) incorporate their expertise into highly communicable tools and (b) develop a personal involvement in the deployment and interpretation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
that the open-end and regulatory features that a mutual fund poses to many successful strategies implemented in other contexts. In addition, it gives students the ability to calculate and interpret various horizons of correlations between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between capitalization and nominal share price, an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
also am working on a few studies that look at the role of the media in disseminating and interpreting financial information. The media has been largely ignored in studies of financial information intermediaries. Given the importance of... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
wage, and then offering a raise with no further conditions after the employee has accepted the contract) does lead to persistently higher effort. Consistent with the idea that the recipient's interpretation of the wage as a gift is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne