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  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

defense decision makers, acquisition officials, and trainers of acquisition personnel. The concluding chapter presents an analysis of why the defense acquisition system has been able to resist improvements... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

considered a reason for sorrow or joy, market dynamics around whole-body donations operate in the United States. It remains crucial to understand how and why these dynamics develop. Scholars, particularly economic sociologists engaging in the sociological View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

integration across multiple offices, ancillary businesses, early adoption of financial reporting software, and consensus-based decision making. The firm was proud of its corporate culture and sought to maintain it as it grew, bringing in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in real GDP, Werker's View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 1, 2006

twenty-first century—race. As contributors to this volume, we were asked to focus on the relationship between race and mentoring. What do we learn about this important developmental relationship by examining the research on race and mentoring? Like DuBois, we believe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

methods to further demonstrate causality and to consider the effects of potential moderators. These findings have implications for decisions related to product pricing, placement and assortment, store layout, and the choice of strategies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

  Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also demonstrate that this effect is due to changes in the psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

on how firms interact in the marketplace. In the paper we provide a detailed characterization of the performance of both strategies. Q: Your work assumes there is transparency in the market with regard to the sharing of consumer information. Why is this key to a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

variety of sources. It is organized into three sections: (1) "The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional Variation" makes a strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

growth. Why? HBS's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson discuss their analysis of some 300 social enterprises. Tishler: How do you distinguish between branches and affiliates? Wei-Skillern and Anderson: Branches... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

months is a short period, the total number of hits was approximately 34 million, so we believe it is a robust measure of investor interest. Of course, we don't know whether investors who actually looked at these data make investment View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Enables readers to analyze the business plan and make recommendations for funding. Rewritten version of earlier supplements. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807051 A Note on Applying Dimensional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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