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  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

beneficial effect reverses (i.e., cost transparency backfires) when it is revealed that a firm's profit margins are high relative to those of its competitors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48019 Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

matched employer-employee literature for handling large data sets, we identify bank-specific shocks for each year in our sample. Combining the Spanish input-output structure and firm-specific measures of upstream and downstream exposure,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

cost reducing behaviors relative to those insured under a traditional plan with deductibles and coinsurance and measures consumer preferences between the two plans. The surveys provide strong evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

total—were more likely to understate their earnings in the two quarters prior to the election. Such "downward earnings management," as it is known in accounting, seems to have been motivated by the desire of contributing firms to not taint View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Assent-maximizing Social Choice

By: Katherine A. Baldiga and Jerry R. Green
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 depend on the population's preferences and on the probability... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Theory; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Society
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  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

in emerging markets over the last half century. It can shed light on sensitive topics that are hard to study using written sources alone and adds nuance to phenomena commonly surveyed or measured qualitatively. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

donating a lump sum, and telling employees after that fact. “That’s not likely going to feel as good,” Whillans says. 2. People prefer to have a choice about helping others People seem to express greater happiness when they have control... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

likely to engage in misconduct. We validate portfolio choice as a measure of risk preferences by correlating actual high-stakes investment choices (average $700,000 U.S.) to conventional laboratory lottery... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

discussions, they typically focus on specific issues, such as those mentioned in the campaign promises presented above. They then evaluate politicians based on how well the politicians' positions match their preferences on these key... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

noticeably lacking at Enron. These processes include: Liberating evaluation processes by adding qualitative judgment to whatever standard quantitative measures of performance that business plans may require Designing and implementing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Jun 2016
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Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

Preference for Established Structure. Measures preference for operating in more established and structured business environments rather than a View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform that already has exclusive access to content may prefer to relinquish control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2023
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Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

numbers, but by natural language, by stories.” The human mind’s love of stories over statistics can have serious implications that go beyond the question of the best approach for leaders. The preference for anecdote over stats can fuel... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • September 2022
  • Article

The Power and Limits of Expertise: Swiss–Swedish Linking of Vehicle Emission Standards in the 1970s and 1980s

By: Mattias Näsman and Sabine Pitteloud
Recent decades have witnessed increased public concern about vehicle emissions and growing frustration with political inaction and business preferences for the status quo. This article provides historical perspective on such regulatory dynamics by analyzing the Swiss... View Details
Keywords: Business And The Environment; Business And Society; Emission Reduction; Automobiles; Standard Setting; Norm-enforcement; Regulation; Expertise; Experts; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Auto Industry; Switzerland; Sweden
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  • 03 Jun 2002
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How to Succeed With Your New Boss

assessments of you will take on additional importance. Your relationship with your new boss will be built through a series of conversations.— Michael Watkins Establishing How You Will Work Together It's essential to figure out how you and your boss will work together.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

reveal that they don't even look at alternatives to the chosen brand. Another option uses physiological or response latency measures. These often reveal that what consumers actually believe or think, as measured by unconscious physical... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

phenomenon whereby the potential to be good at something can be preferred over actually being good at that very same thing. We document this preference for potential in laboratory and field experiments,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act to implement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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