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  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States, comprehensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

through which frontline staff can share and learn new ideas, especially for those who feel safe to speak up and believe that new ideas are not tested frequently enough. Practice Implications: The contest’s potential to decentralize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope of its ratings, to empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago from 1977 to 1985. In this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

An Eye to the East

research, drawing parallels with their own work or experience. A case in point was HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's presentation, the first on the agenda. He reported on the initial results of a multination study of factors driving business performance in Asia. His... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

not be confined to the pursuit of strong institutions: firms may also seek weak institutions to mitigate hazards. Using panel data from the global smartphone industry and recent patent wars among key industry rivals, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments. A variety of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. Other researchers, including Jim Collins in "Good to Great," have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

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 comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal regression models. The base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2025
  • News

If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
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