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  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

  Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Review sites have become increasingly important sources of information for consumers. Because these reviews affect sales, businesses have the incentive to game the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives for it, but if behaviors are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

suggest matches with employers based on the nature of the crime, the amount of time since the conviction, and the nature of the job. For instance, “a low rating might be displayed for an individual convicted of credit card theft who was considering applying for a View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Primer on Patents

one would be willing to invest in research for fear that imitators who had not spent a dime on R&D would become competitors and drive down profits. By protecting innovations, patents are an essential incentive for the development of new... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to their companies' View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

  Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

change. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0612E Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation Authors:Foley, C. Fritz, Jay Hartzell, Sheridan Titman, and Garry Twite Periodical:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Despite common national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

Voids Authors:Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu Publication:The World Financial Review (May-June 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=483   Working PapersThe Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel people have a high sensitivity to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can produce. Kuttner argues that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

production targets in the nascent hydrogen market. Our visit to Crossbridge Energy provided clarity on the usage as well as the financial and sustainability aspects of these production targets. HySynergy’s clever use of long-term supplier... View Details