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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating strategy of the firm. We also View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Immigration will be a central issue in the upcoming US presidential election, just as it motivated the recent snap elections in France. After all, the number of migrants rose 27 percent to 281 million globally in 2020, compared with 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
all from the unanticipated increase in spending," Coval reports. Over a 40-year period, the study looked at increases in local earmarks and other federal spending that flowed to states after the senator or representative rose to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Francisco (39,514) In San Francisco, tech companies are hoping to make the world a better place—but the fabric of the city is changing in the process. A case study by Clayton Rose explores this clash of cultures, and the role of business... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
one reason: a death in the customer's family. A look at the number of waivers showed double-digit growth for the past three years. Either there was a death epidemic, or customers had figured out they could get their money back this way.... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
worked well only at the early phase of modern economic growth and would not necessarily become an obstacle for dynamic development as the economies mature. Our research shows that while political institutions and capital markets have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
announced the split, the price rose nearly tenfold. With the stock split came an increase in publicity, which helped maintain capital inflows from individual investors. The media has drawn a lot of attention to Horie's boyish antics—he is... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history-here, the bulletins' repeated omission of contradictory elements in the firm's past (i.e., structural omission) or attempts to neutralize them with valued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. I show that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for customer fixed effects. However, orders placed by a customer for delivery tomorrow versus two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
The results, written up in new working paper Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence, showed these restaurants enjoyed a significant spike in exposure, in actions such as map requests and calls to restaurants, and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
and created an opportunity for individuals to reopen schools as charters. A number of teachers and principals rose to the challenge. Today around half of the 80 schools in New Orleans are charter schools. The rest are traditional public... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
concentrated long-term family ownership, few shareholders, and family management. This structure was successful within the historical context of the 1960s but came under attack during the crisis-ridden decades that followed. By tracing these changes, the paper... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
fascinating exchange where Kapur tells you what it was like to work at an ad firm in India, which in the 1960s and even beyond was still feeling the vestiges of the British Raj. He says, “ if you spoke English with a slight ‘ho-ho’ accent then you were better off in... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
find that our measure of short-termism is associated with various proxies for accruals and real earnings management, suggesting that our proxy captures not just different disclosure strategies, but also different managerial styles. Next, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces in the category View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne