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  • 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
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 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
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

need to reduce consumption and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit therefore act as substitutes in providing self-insurance, and participants prefer saving more when given the choice. Take-up... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of introducing a flat tax? Is a flat tax a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Noted & Quoted

“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Information
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

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
  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

markets and communities coexist in all three platform business models, there is a tendency for communities to prefer platforms that exert less control, and for external... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

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
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

  Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

would recommend. Related, a similar share prefer a classical benefit-based logic for the assignment of taxes over the conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not reflect the lost sales while a... 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
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace