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  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

Bulls In The News While not in the realm of incentives, per se, another of Parsons's papers also shows how extremely open to influence people can be. It stands to reason that news can influence events as much as it reports on them—but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

& Company, based in San Francisco. Randy W. Goldman (MBA '76), vice president for electronic brokerage product development at Schwab, explains that her company's Internet site carries more than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 11 Aug 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

college. What are the best places if you want to be pre-med or if you're thinking of going to law school or if you simply have no idea what you're doing? What are the places that per capita turn out some of the extraordinary talent? It's... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted abnormal returns of 82 basis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its shareholders, who paid $11 billion for an acquisition that led to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it seemed, from tourists and Hollywood screenwriters to leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

anyone can visit for $2. Today the drugstore chain has upwards of 3,500 outlets and revenues of $900 million. Two-and-a-half million people visit the doctors and 10.5 million people go through "Farmacia Simi" per month. Just by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

although patenting in neural networks saw a strong burst of activity in the 1990s that has only recently been surpassed. In all technological fields, the number of patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

The Estate Tax Debate Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to fund redistribution. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

employment in the corporate staff per se. Results suggest that once people receive the "corporate imprimatur" on their network structures, they retain it even when they move back to the line organization. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

and fast, reliable, and friendly customer service. In November 2010, the CEO Chet Cadieux, had to decide how many new locations to open when QuikTrip entered a new market in North Carolina in 2011. Historically, QuikTrip had entered new markets slowly, opening 10 to 12... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

this case is defined as patient outcomes per dollar spent; the goal is to achieve the best possible outcome at the lowest possible cost. In contrast, today's American health care system tends to emphasize billing for individual... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

of a front page per month, or 37% of a standard deviation in our measure of coverage. The results control for newspaper, month, and individual corruption scandal fixed effects. Download the paper from SSRN ($5):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

faculty, Hart, MBA '81, DBA '95, had direct knowledge of her course material: in 1985, she was one of the four founding officers of Staples Inc., the office-products retailer whose sales now exceed $10 billion per year. Hart wanted her... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

time recorded was used to obtain estimates for physician documentation time on both control (no scribe) and intervention (scribe) shifts. Results: Control shifts yielded approximately 3 hours of documentation time per 8 hours of clinical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine whether prizes encourage innovation and, if so, how. We compare changes in U.S. patents per year for technology areas where U.S. inventors won prizes for exceptional innovations at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Asian countries have made spectacular advances. These include post-WWII Japan and more recently Singapore, China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. Nevertheless most Africans were better off forty years ago than they are today. Average per... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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