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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

commercial avoidance through zapping along with eye tracking on 31 commercials for nearly 2,000 participants are used to calibrate the model. New, simple metrics of attention dispersion are shown to strongly predict avoidance. Independent of this, central on-screen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

profit-maximizing firm, such as Apple, that offers content available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy, and show that the firm may be better off setting high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

strategies for the firm and find market conditions under which the firm would benefit most from implementing BPS. We show that the optimal operating and licensing strategies are driven by the size of the cost reduction enabled by the BPS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew. I think there's a lingering discomfort with the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

to meet GE Capital’s obligations as a “SIFI”—systemically important financial institution—in the wake of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. No path forward was clear. A divestiture, either through a spin-off or sell-off, would reduce GE’s size and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

measured by the value of integrated production is negatively correlated with delegation. Surprisingly, absolute size of the firm is negatively related to delegation. The overall pattern of results highlights the need for a nuanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

foreign markets. Following a reduction in tariffs on trade between the two foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market (HML), View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

size effect, we find no difference in the performance of the buy- and sell-side analysts' Strong Buy/Buy recommendations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-076.pdf Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

well as to other cyclic groups in the system. We show that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of development-open,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

environment is much less rich than in other countries/sectors and in which managers are concerned about measuring the effectiveness of their commercial actions. Among the most immediate decisions they need to make is the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

effective and hazardous pesticides. Treated farmers also sow a significantly larger quantity of cumin, a lucrative but risky crop. Interestingly, use of the service is increasing in the level of farmer education, but education levels do not affect the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

Abstract—This article examines why organic agriculture and food consumption developed more strongly in some countries than others between the 1970s and the 2000s. The focus is the limited growth of the New Zealand organic sector, which contrasts with countries such as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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