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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
unedited, unpredictable, and spontaneous. I thought: “People say I’m entertaining. I have big opinions. I’m too ugly for television, but how about radio?” I persuaded the owner of a tiny 1,000-watt station in Westport to let me work for free. At night, the station... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
because putting on this event will be a logistical challenge, but many in South Africa see it as almost a signal of the country's ability to make the necessary infrastructure investments and to provide the necessary security to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
complex industries such as clean technology stays the same while the number of software companies increases, then the approach is still a net benefit. If, however, the number of complex companies that get funded decreases in favor of quicker and easier companies, then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the mobile application... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
effect. To discern whether status serves as a signal of quality under uncertainty or satisfies the motive of conspicuous consumption, I study a period of time during which the uncertainty about quality has arguably declined. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
income between two organizations in similar businesses. It can be measured by the "Four Rs" of referrals and retention of employees, returns to labor, and relationships with customers that foster customer referrals and retention. An organization relying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency. They share several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
governance and compensation issues 75 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively. Vanguard has also met with some 1,000 executives from companies it invests in. In 2015, CEO Bill McNabb signaled his recognition of the increased role... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
firms is particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
increase worker productivity (piece-rate pay), but also find that this negative relationship is attenuated by organizational legalization and worker participation structures. These findings challenge existing theories of decoupling by showing how these organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants can choose to give up money if they do not follow through with an action. When commitment choices are made public rather than kept private, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
of Verizon, created today's Verizon out of two big mergers, with Bell Atlantic and GTE. In both cases, Seidenberg took a step backward to the number two position, before eventually moving up to CEO again. This kind of signal from the top... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability of trading signals, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
learning processes by their nature involve facing failures—problems, mistakes—head on. The presence of problems or mistakes doesn't signal high performance to most people who might be watching. Some scholars go so far as to define... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Paulson (MBA ’70) announced a plan to inject $250 billion into the nation’s banks, a painfully ironic twist for a free-market Republican administration, signaling a turning point in postwar American economic history. Against this backdrop... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Two sets of studies illustrate the comparative nature of disclosure behavior. The first set investigates how divulgence is affected by signals about others' readiness to divulge. Study 1A shows a "herding" effect, such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne