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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
colleagues David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, and Balagopal Vissa, Wu recently conducted a review to examine how the entrepreneurial community thinks about acquiring resources, publishing their work in the paper, Turning Lead Into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
below the threshold of legal advocacy for infringement prosecution. The angst ... seems(s) highly overwrought." Gerald Nanninga asks what's new. In his words, "Creative people have been exploited since the beginning of mankind... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers tested... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538 Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration versus View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
Kirby. "Why does the state dominate the wine industry? Because it is ludicrously profitable. Institutionally, you have these bottlenecks." Oftentimes it is not the central government that is the biggest problem, but local and regional officials who may View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
government blames business for acting irresponsibly. Much of the public blames the rich and elite for exploiting everyone else. Parties on each side work hard to amplify these accusations, but their efforts do nothing to help solve the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
for bold moves, such as game-changing acquisitions. The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World by Donald Sull (MBA ’92, DBA ’96) (HarperBusiness) Based on a decade of research into companies that have not only withstood turbulence but View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
and written about the biotech industry. "The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure," he says. "We need to learn better how to exploit that advantage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
subsistence culture, or jeopardize international freedom of the seas. Global warming will eventually lead to significant increases in resource exploitation in the Arctic. When might that begin? Much of the economic development going on... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
only when publicly disclosed fundamental signals have high precision; fundamentals are thus the sole driver of crises in low-precision settings. We affirm this proposition on 39 currency crises by exploiting a key publicly disclosed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
cases with integrated digitized text and 'live' exhibits, taking students on-site via video sequences within a given case, and exploiting the full power of the Internet as a learning tool - we knew that our network and desktop... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
levels—these days. Why? Is it because large organizations are perceived as lacking agility, unable or unwilling to generate the impetus for development and exploitation of disruptive technologies? Is it because a new generation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
consumers' experience with a prototype. Or ZMET might be used to study organizational dynamics in a company: the ability to innovate, for example." Still other uses can be found in advertising. And high tech can exploit ZMET too, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric devices in tuberculosis (TB) treatment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
instrumental variables approach exploiting an historical shift in innovation activity during World War II to show that this relationship could be causal. Finally, we document a U-shaped relationship between top income inequality and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne