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  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

post. For example, euro area governments during the period 1999–2007 assiduously and inaccurately avoided forecasting deficit levels that would exceed the 3% Stability and Growth Pact threshold; meanwhile, private sector forecasters were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another, clogging up what had been a well-oiled... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

they are also signaling to people that it might be safer to go out now,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Policymakers trying to avoid draconian... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

firm-wide diversification; in contrast, a high net value of within-firm coordination is correlated with centralization. Variation across establishments within firms is widespread: most firms are neither fully centralized nor fully decentralized. Delegation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

researchers were able to find similar private firms for a good number of public firms. The team then studied the investment patterns of public and private companies within the match sample. "In particular, we looked at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition,” says Sadun, who provides advice for avoiding communication shutdowns. Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping their position or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
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Disruption: The Art of Framing

different work patterns and decision rules required in the new business. Print reps were used to selling in long cycles, to an established customer base, with a generic, nontargeted advertising product. Online advertising customers bought... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

prisoner's dilemma problem. Parasitic integration often occurs when only two or three firms exist in a small industry. When students participating in these exercises figure out how to develop a pattern of mutually high prices, negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 13 Mar 2005
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Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity-that is, by patterns of prior foundings, of support from related markets, and of institutional activism in a given sector. Building on research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms significantly alter their tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

A series of experiments demonstrates this pattern in competitive contexts in which considering others' perspectives activates egoistic theories of their likely behavior, leading people to counter by behaving more egoistically themselves.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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