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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

reaching higher productivity. Attracting FDI, generating jobs, and growing exports are positive implications of higher productivity. But the ultimate test of whether policies are effective is their impact on prosperity. And here... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

pledge to the top of Form 1040. "It's a long shot, but we're hoping they'll be interested," Gino says. In the meantime, they are looking to test the top-of-the-page signature hypothesis on other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

which made it to the “refinement” stage, including Regan’s. “The hypothesis that we are testing is that if a complex legal brief is viewed firstly as a bundle of tasks to be integrated to create a customer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

  Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

there we hand-collected past education of analysts and matched these to past education of board members and senior officers of firms. These 1,800+ analysts represent those from the entire universe of analysts from 1990 to 2006 on which we could find education data. To... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education Harvard Business School Note 307-068 Surveys educational outcomes among public school students in the United States. Educational outcomes are categorized as achievement outcomes (measured primarily by students' performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Quarterly 52, no. 3 (September 2007) Abstract Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

III, and Edward J. Riedl Periodical:Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming Abstract Recent accounting research employs an asymmetric timeliness measure to test the hypothesis that accounting earnings is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

concrete evidence yet for other cultures, but the theory is not culture specific," he says. "We can't be definitive that this exact pattern of findings would play out in India, for instance, but the hypothesis was developed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

  PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of complexity but that can be as simple... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

  Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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