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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

some people's inputs count more than their actual knowledge warrants, to the detriment of the project. The problem is common—and avoidable, says HBS professor Heidi K. Gardner, who has developed and tested a theory of pressure on teams... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal regression models. The base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

management of variability often requires a company to influence customers' behavior. Managers attempting that kind of intervention can follow a three-step process: diagnosing the behavioral problem, designing an operating role for customers that creates new value for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707019 The History of Credit Agencies in the United States Harvard Business School Note 307-057 Provides a brief background on the history of credit agencies in the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the market. This involved expanding the firm's facilities and headcount, and he planned to fund this by taking venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

Development on the Investment Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe Authors:Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan Publication:B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate financing constraints in a large... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

templates. We test our theory on a novel dataset of over 700 founders of social ventures, all guided by a social welfare logic. Some of them also incorporate a commercial logic along with the social welfare logic, thereby creating a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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