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  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

Across three studies, we show that gift givers mis-predict appreciation for socially responsible gifts and that their mis-predictions depend on the nature of their relationship to the recipient. Drawing on research on affective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (1) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual View Details
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves to grant certain applicants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

monetary policy rules are no short-cut to credibility in situations where vulnerability to economic and political shocks, not time-inconsistency, are overarching concerns for investors. Download the paper from SSRN ($5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

to recognize and deal with. For example, an organization that has just completed a learning initiative may see a drop in productivity, at least in the short term. Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore the problematic... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

such as workers facing decreased wages or losing their jobs. RDT: The elite, in general, have overclaimed the advantages of economic globalization. For example, in trade, globalization is potentially helpful View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

for outsourcers and the firms that use their services. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-057.pdf A Note on Fairness and Redistribution Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra Abstract We... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
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The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

benefit the rich to reduce inequality? How so? Inequality drains capitalism of its robustness, of its opportunity to spread prosperity. It’s not a matter of reducing the take of the rich to redistribute it to the poor. It’s a matter of... View Details
Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology, decentralization, and management, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

from HBS. Intercepting or otherwise viewing information or communications not intended for you, or redistributing the communications of others, may constitute a violation of law and/or a violation of HBS or... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and business leader Robert Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

  PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne