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  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical and empirical methods. Our experiments in both gain and loss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice rules that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

United States operates a mishmash of a system that taxes worldwide income, provides partial relief for foreign taxes paid, imposes those taxes only upon repatriation, and forces firms to allocate expenses on a worldwide basis. The major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the content provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective of its relation to alleged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

compete on the basis of brands and reputation, and in sectors where companies' products significantly depend upon extracting large amounts of natural resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-035.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. To better determine when a firm will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

and the difficulty of gaining access to treatment appear to be the two chief failings of the reform. Says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, “The rise in costs is partially caused by greater than expected enrollments; the number of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating simultaneously in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

motivations by plotting them on the two axes. The resulting location is a qualitative self-assessment and judgment of what is the driving behavior rather than a precise calculation. Figure 2: Cross-Sector Collaboration Motivational... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

Health was a market leader, but dependence on climate-sensitive products made for uneven performance. Tanya Ferretto served as both finance head and general manager for Animal Health in Japan, where the business was a niche player... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

differences, proposes a sequence of stratagems that may enable entrepreneurs to alter strategy while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our theoretical framework posits that for ventures, reorientation without penalty may depend on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. antifraud regime. The Court thus excluded the overwhelming majority of investors in U.S.-listed foreign firms from the protection of the U.S. civil liability regime and cast at least partial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel