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- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/130424-CGK-IPE.pdf Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors' Dissent in China By: Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—This paper examines the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
to investigate the psychological consequences and performance benefits of connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work. In a longitudinal field experiment of fruit harvesters, we find that though beneficiary contact with the overall customer... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
burdening the taxpayer? That's the question." Investment Banking Faces A Crisis Of Confidence Senior lecturer Clayton Rose shared insights on the turmoil gained in part from his experience at JP Morgan & Company for 20 years,... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
care. The paper contains an interview with Kaplan and Porter about their experiences with improving the measurement of health care outcomes and cost. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52117 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
windfall ended, and the recipient countries experienced a significant uptick in civil war. To provide a causal interpretation we leverage a quasi-natural experiment of oil price induced aid disbursements that favored Muslim countries over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety on perceptual and conceptual... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously best described as a duopoly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
experiment, some participants were asked to sign an honesty statement at the top of the form, while others were asked to sign the statement at the bottom. The experiment also included the added wrinkle of a View Details
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
important later on the experiment (unconscious thought), or to perform the task while believing the experiment had ended (control condition). Afterwards, sequence memory and intrusions of the film were... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
the peak of the market a significant fraction of institutional money was controlled by young managers, thanks in part to rising prices for tech stocks, the researchers say. We asked Greenwood to discuss the research and its implications... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
inventions as the top 1% of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations that do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace