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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
(1994-2000) and the first Kagame government (2000-2004) to restore and build the economy. Provides detailed economic and social data as of 2004, allowing evaluation of policy results. Concludes as President Kagame, now formally elected as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the dynamics of organizational sectors. How Should We Pay for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
dispute and a trend analysis of over 400 total WTO disputes, I find that the WTO dispute settlement process is helping to legitimize the institution of free trade through its public display of rational authority and neutral expertise. At the same time, dispute View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
uses a unique panel dataset that allows us to track the career histories of individuals across firms. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before, or if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
never-ending pipeline of empirical data and policy proposals failed to change the fact that your end of the social contract was continually violated and broken, through blatant murder, institutionalized racism, and structural disadvantage... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
will have over a 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... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
business lending market. This ambitious book grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
But how much should the company charge for it? Little is known of the pad's potential market, and there is little data available regarding other variables that would also influence the product's price. "The company's president came... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
little data available regarding other variables that would also influence the product’s price. “The company’s president came to us with the idea for a case because he was perplexed about how to price the new pile driver and hammer pads,”... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic communication in an e-mail View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at... View Details
Keywords: April White