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  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

reducing the optimal taxation level. We find evidence consistent with these predictions and the entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

implicitly follow these two stages. We have categorized these approaches into a 3x3 matrix, which suggests three different approaches for stage-one demand estimation (decision calculus, experiments and econometric methods), and three different methods for stage-two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

sector tends to be mired in a process that often results in various degrees of chaos. Supported by a broad mix of foundations, corporations, and individuals, the philanthropic capital markets depend mostly on a hodgepodge of personal relationships, reputations, and... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were dumping insured bonds; View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

the EPO and USPTO.) The professors discovered a significant shift in the nature of herbal patents. Before the introduction of the data library, herbal patents tended to focus purely on natural herbs. In the years after the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 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
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

stimulates greater use for a given buyer). We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. The amount paid does not have a psychological effect on use, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. We use our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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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
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

economies. Consistent with the presence of network effects in IFRS adoption, we find that a country is more likely to adopt IFRS if other countries in its geographical region are IFRS adopters. (No PDF is available.)   Cases & Course MaterialsBasic Techniques for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

goals, past research on these programs' impact has yielded mixed outcomes. Our goal is to understand why this might be the case. Design/Methodology/Approach: We rely on interview, archival, and longitudinal survey data to examine young... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf   PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

LESSON FROM HBS "The secret of success often comes down to two main ingredients: think through a problem carefully and then act upon your analysis without a hint of procrastination. HBS is a very effective proving ground for this, and for... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on state-level personal income taxes. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24

rates persist through the three weeks of available data following the initial intervention. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/ALERT.pdf Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks By: Lee, Jooa... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

should help you identify when to incorporate careful, reasoned analysis into your negotiation judgments. We realize that our recommendations run counter to the implicit trust and confidence that many of us have in our intuition. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra