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  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

same subject. Using a detailed dataset to track civil war casualties across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

sample company invested in marketing, ex ante, at levels close to those that would have maximized returns, observed ex post. Managing Creativity in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:California Management Review 48, no. 4 (summer 2006) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net effect on valuation from sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

mobility barriers have become essential components of conflict policies. Second, a family of hybrid conflict policies has evolved that feature elements of the "split account" system long practiced in Japan. "What surprised me," Silk says,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what geographic market—China, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, or South Korea—is more suitable for AKB48’s first move overseas. During the discussion, students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people understand our gifts policy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage comparisons within firms with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

framework. The first layer assesses the relative importance of skilled labor, suppliers, and knowledge spillovers. The second layer considers whether firms can benefit from geographic concentration without co-locating. The final layer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online platforms such as Yelp are often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

and mobilizing employees to embrace them, and practicing dual-minded leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55837 March–April 2019 Harvard Business Review Operational Transparency: Make Your... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

to the company's future. I argue that there may be a geographic solution to this dilemma. In such a solution, a fast-growing emerging market plays a central role in orchestrating a complete strategy for corporate entrepreneurship. I also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

Case 713-447 In 2012, GREE was one of the world's most profitable mobile social gaming companies. Its success in Japan was due both to its in-house games and to the development platform that it offered to third-party game developers. Its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to show that newspapers with greater reliance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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