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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

insufficient room to collaborate. Zhu and his collaborators predict that as digitization increasingly de-couples hardware and software in many industries, corporate frenemies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
  • February 2011 (Revised February 2011)
  • Supplement

The Auction for Burger King (A) (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
The courseware contains information on comparable firms and transactions as well as a forecasting model using the case data. View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Auctions; Market Transactions; Valuation; Service Industry
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  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a percentage of unionized... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January–February 2024
    • Article

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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    • 12 Jul 2016
    • News

    Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

    Keywords: Managerial Economics
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Do Sell-Side Stock Analysts Exhibit Escalation of Commitment?

    By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
    This paper presents evidence that when an analyst makes an out-of-consensus forecast of a company's quarterly earnings that turns out to be incorrect, she escalates her commitment to maintaining an out-of-consensus view on the company. Relative to an analyst who was... View Details
    Keywords: Escalation Of Commitment; Stock Market; Updating; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction
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    Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

    HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Course Number 1504 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper Overview: BSSE at... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Real Credit Cycles

    By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer and Stephen J. Terry
    We incorporate diagnostic expectations, a psychologically founded model of overreaction to news, into a workhorse business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. A realistic degree of diagnosticity, estimated from the forecast errors of managers of U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Econometric Models; Business Cycles; Credit
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      Complicated Firms

      We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into... View Details
      • 23 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

      arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • March 2025
      • Article

      Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

      By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
      Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
      Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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      SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

      of the sector. Educational Objectives Develop an informed view on the history of and recent dramatic changes in how the space sector functions, including the evolving relationship between public and private... View Details
      • November 2024
      • Article

      Perceptions About Monetary Policy

      By: Michael D. Bauer, Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam
      We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time,... View Details
      Keywords: Monetary Policy; Policy; Interest Rates; Perception; Economy; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • 21 Nov 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

      of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be nearly obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 Oct 2024
      • Op-Ed

      Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

      John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead... View Details
      Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
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      Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

      By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
      We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Markets; Stocks; Investment Return; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Volatility; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavioral Finance
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