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- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
telegraph in particular provided new opportunities for direct communication between suppliers and customers, without the need for middlemen. 2 However some markets were opened more quickly, or were of more interest to, say, European manufacturers, than other countries.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,” says Rigol, noting that traditional economic models assume that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior By: Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese Abstract—The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
change initiatives-Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication, and Results Only Work Environment-that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. August 2013 Tax Administration Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
corporate objectives to your employees ." The perverse effects of pay for performance were also targeted. Sylvia Lee pointed out that "we want knowledge sharing but reward knowledge hoarding." In commenting on executive... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
across complements can offset horizontal competition between substitutes. In this paper, we isolate the offsetting price effects and show how they operate in large (as well as small) clusters. We argue that it is possible in principle for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50591 Do Incentive Plans for Exemplary Employees Lead to Productive or Counterproductive Outcomes? By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using data from a retail chain, this paper studies the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
which physicians convene to discuss significant mistakes or unexpected deaths) as a forum for identifying, discussing, and learning from failures. This analysis can only be effective if people speak up openly about what they know and if... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
making by high-affinity syndicates post investment. Taken together, our results suggest that non-ability-based "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
But long-term success-even for a family company-can be explained in a rather simple, straightforward way. Here are some high points to consider. Grow Every Generation In order to stay alive commercially as a family, you must grow your assets (what's left of your assets... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
managed and which customers rate as a top Disney offering. “We considered joint ventures with established cruise lines, but to do it the Disney way, we realized we had to own and run it ourselves.” Murphy, a Beverly Hills resident, has... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
occurred—across four experiments, we find that revealing both successes and failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. This effect holds regardless of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change outright (resistors) are an effective means of affective cooptation only when a change diverges little from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
strong emphasis on education. They suggest that China's dependency ratio will peak at about one dependent to 2.6 workers in the next few years. After that, the effects of encouraged reductions in the birth View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
we’ve seen, people may choose to enter into these platforms during a boom, and it’s very exciting. But if you don’t understand the risk you’re taking on, that can be really harmful as soon as the state of the market changes. "It’s still really difficult to figure out... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that allows people to borrow... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman