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- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
methodology based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis to illustrate that such data can be used to generate insight about the relationship between a firm’s past financial performance and the language and... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-013.pdf A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
some of those consumer eyeballs. In "Moment-to-Moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing," forthcoming in Marketing Science, Teixeira and coauthors Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of the Netherlands'... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30
operational measures of social enterprise success. Finally, we identify present trends along both dimensions that contribute to changing the research infrastructure for empirical social enterprise research. Originality/value: Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
[PDF]. "There are many detailed case studies of conflict, and many broad-brush, cross-country studies. Within-country studies, such as we conducted on Nepal, fill in the gap between the two different approaches. Our econometric View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
Stickgold and Harvard Kennedy School's Todd Rogers, HBS PhDOB'08), influence and persuasion research (with my main collaborator at HBS, professor Amy Cuddy), voice analysis research (with Amy Cuddy and Cornell's Tanzeem Choudhury and her... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Enables readers to analyze the business plan and make recommendations for funding. Rewritten version of earlier supplements. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807051 A Note on Applying Dimensional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
(treadmills attached to desks that enable employees to walk while working), provided employees with feedback on their own and their co-workers' usage, and assessed usage over six months. We report how we determined our sample size, as well as all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and a non-financial reward. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
strategy beyond markets. Very few studies have shown that a firm’s strategy increases policy performance; almost none have demonstrated a link between policy and firm profitability. Third, the topical areas of analysis appear to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne