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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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organizations and teams. Steve Jobs famously described curiosity as, “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Jobs’ curiosity led him to imagine how advances in chip technology might enable personal computing, Michael Bloomberg’s curiosity about data... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Made in the USA

includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high throughput.” Based on that assessment,... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

escalating real estate costs of her hometown and company hub of Austin, Texas, and how developing the first FDA-approved at-home COVID-19 test was not a pivot but a natural extension of EverlyWell’s values and business plan. On the final... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs to develop a set of hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

rates, risk-aversion, and the influence of employers and neighbors. Download the working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-071.pdf Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

capture the degree to which organizations' identities are eclipsed and confounded. The theory is tested with data on U.S. venture capital firm syndication between 1995 and 2009. Venture capital firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

company is about. Develop preliminary hypotheses. The key here is hypotheses based on criteria and data that the venture can use to test things both internally and in the marketplace. This may sound obvious,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

video ads. In a controlled experiment, joy and surprise were assessed through automated facial expression detection for a sample of ads. Concentration of attention was assessed through eye tracking and retention of viewers by recording zapping behavior. This allows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

Straus Professor of Business Administration MIT Press Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

to deviate from the proposed research activities. The contract prevents opportunistic exercise of the termination right by conditioning payments on the termination of the agreement. We test the model empirically using a new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

to their dismissal. A link between tenure and effectiveness We developed a simple model to analyze the relationship between coach tenure and effectiveness using NFL data from 2000 to 2015. The model used winning percentage as the outcome... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

locate them in non-mainline business units, such as corporate or philanthropic foundations. Using survey and archival data from 161 Fortune 500 firms, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings reveal how institutional logics serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

  PublicationsTo Think or Not To Think about Trauma? An Experimental Investigation into Unconscious Thought and Intrusion Development Authors:Julie Krans and Maarten W. Bos Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 3, no. 2 (2012) Abstract The present study... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

smaller adopters. Empirically, we test our theory with longitudinal data on the adoption of the ISO 9000 quality management standard. Postcards from the Edge: A Review of the Business and Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

of your work? “Working for a hunger-relief organization during a pandemic has been tremendously challenging. We’ve had to respond quickly to meet the rapidly increasing need in our communities, which seemed to double overnight. We have focused on learning as quickly as... View Details