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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting overlooked customers with a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full—causing companies to miss out on big competitive leaps, write the researchers in their working paper. Lane, who is affiliated with the Laboratory for... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
markets also plays a causal role in shifting investments to more novel startups-by lowering the cost of experimentation for early stage investors and allowing them to make riskier, and more novel, investments. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management more challenging. Our evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
positive relationship between real rates and the contemporaneous valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk appetite explains 41% of the variation in the one-year real... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
entire US economy.” In the course of writing a Harvard Business School case on the patent office, he discovered the agency was implementing a sophisticated new machine learning program called Sigma-AI in an attempt to cut the time... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human capital theory, we derive several... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
Gerson, writing in The Washington Post, generally agreed with these views. His thoughtful column suggested ways of overcoming the political differences running through this month's comments, when he said: "Proposals focused mainly on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
layperson. Jeffrey Bussgang (@bussgang) is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: China, climate, and courtrooms For summer reading, I like gripping novels but also provocative insights into... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few... View Details