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  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

downstream (to customer industries) and that there is a tight relationship between the direct impact of a shock and the magnitudes of the downstream and the upstream indirect effects. We then investigate the short-run propagation of four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • spring 2006
  • Article

All's Fair in Love, War & Bankruptcy?: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S Bernstein
Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance
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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2020
  • Article

Subjective Semantic Surprise Resulting from Divided Attention Biases Evaluations of an Idea’s Creativity

By: Goran Calic, Nour El Shamy, Isaac Kinley, Scott Watter and Khaled Hassanein
The evaluation of an idea’s creativity constitutes an important step in successfully responding to an unexpected problem with a new solution. Yet, distractions compete for cognitive resources with the evaluation process and may change how individuals evaluate ideas. In... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking
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    Incentives for Bad Science

    Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) inform medical practice, health care delivery, follow-on research, regulation, and health policy. Yet, many RCTs are inadequately randomized, blinded, and reported. To analyze scientists' and firms' incentives to meet clinical trial... View Details
    • 13 Dec 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

    • spring 2006
    • Article

    All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States
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    Space, the Final Economic Frontier

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and U.S. policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7% of GDP in the mid-1960s but is only around 0.1% of GDP... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economics; Private Sector; Aerospace Industry
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Does Competition Favor Delegation?

    By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
    This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Decision Making
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    • 09 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

    Keywords: by Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene & Max H. Bazerman
    • 18 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation

    Keywords: by Luc Wathieu & Allan Friedman
    • August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
    • Background Note

    Governance of the Family Business Owners

    By: John A. Davis
    Reviews the principal ways in which the owners of a family business achieve their governance objectives of a suitable identity and sensible direction and the discipline to achieve these. Covers the responsibilities and rights of owners, plus governance procedures,... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Goals and Objectives; Family Ownership
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    • 21 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

    Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 16 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

    of a total federal R&D budget of $8.7 billion, or 64.4 percent. By 2007, the defense R&D budget had risen to $69.3 billion, accounting for 50 percent of the total federal R&D budget of $137.2 billion. In pursuit of its mission to View Details
    Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
    • 2012
    • Article

    Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

    By: Alvin J. Silk
    What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    An AI Method to Score Celebrity Visual Potential from Human Faces

    By: Flora Feng, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kannan Srinivasan and Cait Lamberton
    It has long been a mantra of marketing practice that, particularly in low-involvement situations, spokespeople should be physically attractive. This paper suggests there is a higher probability of gaining fame and influence (i.e., celebrity potential) than is captured... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Characteristics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

    By: Alvin J. Silk
    What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
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    • May 2019
    • Article

    The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets

    By: Sugata Roychowdhury and Suraj Srinivasan
    Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the institutional stability, fortitude and direction necessary for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives.... View Details
    Keywords: Gatekeepers; Capital Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity

    By: Itai Gurvich, Martin Lariviere and Antonio Moreno
    Motivated by recent innovations in service delivery such as ride-sharing services and work-from-home call centers, we study capacity management when workers self-schedule. Our service provider chooses capacity to maximize its profit (revenue from served customers minus... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Servers; On-demand Economy; Independent Capacity; Distributed Systems; Uber; Service Operations; Performance Capacity
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    • 06 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

    not receive such evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products By: Cavallo, Alberto, and Diego Aparicio Abstract—We study the impact of targeted... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne