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  • 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

consumption paths and then into a net effect on social welfare. I calibrate that framework using recently produced data on Social Security beneficiaries by lifetime income decile and both existing and new survey evidence on the normative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Right Connections

to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career histories of top managers from Boston-area biotech... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?, Campbell, fellow HBS professor Frances X. Frei and doctoral student Ryan W. Buell explore this dance between service levels, customer loyalty, and competitive strategy. The study drew on extensive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

  Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

indicate competence at the young firm — and the potential for firm-level success," she says. On a hunch that she might be witnessing an important phenomenon, Higgins began interviewing top managers from local biotech companies about... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

geographically specific reason, the researchers compared the major drought years of 1930, 1934, and 1936 with non-drought years, 1931 and 1935, in the same geographical areas. They looked at firm-level unionization View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

country and firm-level data. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases and both sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Value Approach By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable model of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and ROE-and study the cross-sectional... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The current rescue package might end up being more expensive for the American taxpayer, he added, because the guaranteed loans are forgivable under certain conditions. Researchers used detailed small- and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne