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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
can be attributed to topics shifting toward three domains: the stock market, salacious content, and celebrities. Meanwhile, relative to nonparticipants, participants' content quality increases after the program takes effect. We also find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is...
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- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
employees, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can promote operational flexibility, employee engagement, and tight strategic alignment. Groysberg and Slind have identified four elements of organizational conversation that reflect the essential View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
the common failure to think about the decisions of others contributes to suboptimal outcomes. Yet sometimes, an excess of cynicism appears to lead us to over-think the actions of others and make negative attributions about their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
segmentations that are based on a correlation of product sales or service with the attributes of the purchaser (such as age, gender, income level, and education level), jobs-based segmentation seeks to understand the causal roots of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
attribution and construal processes, and motivated illusions was incorporated into our understanding of negotiations. Several promising areas of research have emerged in recent years, drawing from other disciplines and informing the field...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Synchronicity and Firm Interlocks in an Emerging Market Authors:Tarun Khanna and Catherine Thomas Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Stock price synchronicity has been attributed to poor corporate governance...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
been negligent; it's more notable when a good company screws up. But if the insurance argument held true, then greener companies should at least see more favorable coverage when spills occur, with the media being more likely to attribute...
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- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
executive might get caught up in comparing the graphics capabilities and audio quality of various options, when in fact the only factors of importance to users are the size, weight, and security features. Worse yet, even if they narrow down the list of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
news programs were also the most “popular.” But that kind of program will only be popular if consumers place enough value on those attributes relative to others. The “flavors” of news offered at any point in time have always been those...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series variation in differences between the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
lot of the things that were attributed to Peter Drucker were Doriot’s ideas,” says Charles P. Waite (MBA ’59), a former student who went on to work at ARD for many years and was a founding partner of Greylock, the Boston-based venture...
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- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Now some have criticized the efficacy of campaigns like the one that you ran with the Georgia Meth Project saying that it's very difficult to prove success and to attribute success to particular ads. How do you measure success? Langford:...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program that focused on the MFA's partnership with Fleet in sponsoring the "Monet in the 20th Century" exhibition. Greyser attributes the success of this 1998 blockbuster — which was that...
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- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
with leaders as they really are, forgive the inevitable transgression but file it away for future reference Pfeffer attributes the abysmal levels of trust in which employees hold their organizations’ leaders (levels of trust, he fails to...
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