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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55022 Who Should Select New Employees in Geographically Dispersed Organizations: Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

1.5 Attendance | MBA

required to select the reason that is most consistent with why they will not be present in class on that particular day. For example, if a student will miss a class because they are traveling on the same day as an event or obligation... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

  PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

It took more than a century for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks thirty selected blue chip stocks, to hit 20,000, but it finally happened last Wednesday – a milestone marked by banner headlines and happy investors. In a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

average value. (Contests) allow me to find the extreme value.” Curbing the patent trolls Another research presentation focused on the adverse effects around patent litigation, which has increased sharply in the last decade. In fact, 2015... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

contract from a fixed menu. Then, agents "choose to work" for a principal by selecting one of the available contracts. We find that i) (heterogeneous) social preferences are significant determinants of choices, ii) for both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive correlation between the sponsor-friendliness of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • News

Road Work

spirituality that was very palpable in India. And in the Q&A, they said they were going to do a sequel. And I said, "I want to be in that sequel. I have no idea where you're riding, but it looks fascinating." Long story short, I was View Details
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

the problem is that the toxic assets are incredibly heterogeneous, even within an asset class, unlike U.S. Treasuries, which are homogeneous. The result would have been a huge adverse selection problem, to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

acquisitions. We find that the use of stock and related transaction predicts better long-run performance. Our results suggest that the acquirers of private venture capital-backed companies do not suffer any adverse View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from 91 physicians reading a total of more than 2.4 million radiological studies over a period of two and a half years, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2025
  • News

Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
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