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- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
integration and delegation covary positively; (ii) producers are more likely to integrate suppliers in input sectors with greater productivity variation (as the option value of integration is greater); and (iii) producers are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
industries, the concept of a homer might take on other forms (e.g., an office worker typing a personal letter on his or her computer while at work). Q: Since the practice of employees using company time and resources to create personal View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that securitized View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors' changing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
commonality in the bioprocessing aspects of both approaches, the regulatory approvals, product development paths, and market-access timelines were dramatically different--almost diametrically opposed. Analyzes Biocon's strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
through affective mechanisms. Working Papers Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
Larkin showed that salespeople at a software firm seemed to care more about belonging to the company's nominal "president's club" than they cared about significant financial bonuses. "Human beings are biased, prejudiced, and react to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
"Why is it so costly to produce? It shouldn't be. Where's the inefficiency in our production by reinsurance companies? Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price? A lot of the research goes into trying to... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further develop a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers' incentives to make long-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
the product of three elements that are required to interact: technology, people, and government. The interaction, which they describe in detail, "ultimately affects us all, and so should concern us all," they write. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
presentations on stage, whether they are Shakespeare, Beethoven, or The Lion King, depend on a business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry's... View Details
- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
therapy innovations. To bolster Medtronic's near-term prospects, he has supported creative product and business model innovations aimed at overcoming adoption barriers in emerging economies. Ishrak restructured his executive team and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne