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  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship but that the overall magnitudes are small. Moreover, the marginal individuals selecting into entrepreneurship when constraints are relaxed may well be starting businesses that are of lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

additional 60,000 rural villages. By relying exclusively on low-income women as their frontline sales force, it also provided a significant source of income to a traditionally marginalized group. Q: What are some of challenges that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
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Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

businesspeople out of the religious picture. We call these "tripping points." They just really got in the way of any kind of joint communication in this area. First of all, [the lack of communication] marginalizes the churches... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
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XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Levien at Xerox headquarters. Rather than being culled from research efforts that were viewed as marginal by Xerox, LiveWorks commercialized research in an area deemed central to Xerox's strategy: ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

driven by categorization threat—feeling unwillingly reduced to a single identity—which is induced when a) the identity deployed is that of a typically marginalized group (Studies 3-4) and b) the appeal evokes a stereotype about that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52089... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011

that are relatively unknown and have low marginal costs. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance (2,773) http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-087.pdf http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6649.html... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Feb 2004
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Where Does Apple Go From Here?

margin to a core group of loyal users and you don't talk much about market share? (Market researchers pinpoint the Mac share at 2 to 4 percent of the overall PC market.) Is this a viable strategy for Apple? A: Over the long run, no. There... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718511-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-126 Baupost Group: Finding a Margin of Safety in London Real Estate No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hypotheses and mixed support for our third: organizational infrastructure and identity significantly affect practice adoption, albeit in different ways, but only marginal support for leadership and elite organizational status. Our results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

At a crossroads in February 2001, the shareholders of Zansar Technologies were waiting for a maiden dividend, and profit margins were sliding. A new leadership team took charge and turned Zensar around into one of the most successful... View Details
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

bicycles, appreciated for their retro look and style. Its country of origin had probably helped them exporting their products as their bicycles were 100% made in Italy, and the Made in Italy label had a reputation for high quality, craftsmanship, and creativity. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance on cardiovascular patients (positive spillovers) and 2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital's focus in cardiovascular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

them a game plan. After that, winning is up to the players on the field. It is their leadership that matters. The actions of many leaders seizing the moment create the margin of victory. When people have confidence in one another, they... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter