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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Because the current empirical literature does not account for this intertemporal channel, it may underestimate the total work disincentive effect of SSDI. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2295538 J. Richard Hackman... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As a result, this study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

restricted number of candidates coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

industry under deregulation. Largely overlooked in the popular literature on Southwest, this culture combining wacky behavior and a deep commitment to the long-term health of Southwest and its employees was modeled after another airline... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

environment? A: The sociological literature contains a number of wonderful ethnographies—vivid descriptive accounts—of men doing dangerous work in such settings as coal mines, fire departments, and the military. Invulnerability looms... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

General Georges Frederic Doriot, but I do know that in 2002, when I looked into the sparse literature on the history of venture capital, his name kept popping up. I found a bunch of newspaper and magazine profiles, a chapter on him in a... View Details
Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

Tufano Abstract Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

students experience their time in school and for grasping a broad review of the leadership development literature as it applies to MBA programs. Commonly asked questions explored include: Are leaders born or made? When we talk about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

inherited from Britain had better investment protection than countries which inherited civil law systems from Spain. This literature points to a major effect on financial development, which in turn impacted the nature and speed of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

we find that countries with well-developed financial markets gain significantly from FDI via TFP improvements. These results are consistent with the recent findings in the growth literature that shows the important role of TFP over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out. Empirical evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

factors-psychological safety, cognitive flexibility, and psychological ownership-that enable the three steps that comprise this process. By illuminating the formation process of an entrepreneurial organization, we contribute to organizational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

use of knowledge previously codified and stored in the organization affects team performance. We draw upon the team effectiveness, knowledge management, and information systems literatures to develop five hypotheses on the effects of team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

for Implementing Planned Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana, M.J. Gilmartin, A.-C., Pache, M. Sengul, and J. Alexander Periodical:Leadership Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-085.pdf Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature Authors:Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Scholars of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace