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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
(Study 1). Product priming also increases the speed with which product-relevant individuals come to mind (Study 2). In Study 3, consumers felt subjectively closer to networks primed by specific products, and this felt closeness predicted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
taught the course. First introduced to HBS in the late 1980s by Harvard psychiatrist and educator Robert Coles, The Moral Leader uses literature to study moral decision-making and leadership. Individual faculty teach the course using... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
about registration or help to register at home. While both types of visits increased registration, the home registration visits had a higher impact than the information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
high-end fashion industry and the actions of entrepreneurs in the early days of this industry, I seek to redress these shortcomings of prior organizational research. Based on a series of interviews with designers and individuals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
the SBA guarantee on loans made by private banks, and also reduce fees. The impact was immediate. "It was like we turned on a light switch," she recalls, snapping her fingers. "When I left four years later, we had seen two... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
of an organization," they continue. "How well a business is able to manage and implement the service delivery process has a direct effect on retention of existing clients, and can have a significant impact on acquiring new... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
procedures show that results are robust to omitting any individual standard setter. Publisher's Link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1617398 The Question of IFRS Adoption: A Very Long Engagement Author:Karthik Ramanna... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
negatively impact job performance. But companies can mitigate these effects by adopting specific human resource policies, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
Summing Up Let's hear it for deregulation, at least its long-term effects. It's well worth the short-term disruptions and consumer confusion. That's the near-unanimous judgement of those of you responding to my recent piece on the subject. Among the benefits cited for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and moderated by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-03109-0 Sell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy, and Andrea Frazzini Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We study the impact of social networks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace