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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

of moderating controversial content of all kinds. How much do users trust tech companies? The coauthors relied on a mathematical model to study strategic interactions, testing outcomes under different scenarios and rules. “It’s difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

  Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations face simultaneous imperatives to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

for bold moves, such as game-changing acquisitions. The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World by Donald Sull (MBA ’92, DBA ’96) (HarperBusiness) Based on a decade of research into companies that have not only withstood turbulence but View Details
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

deontologists. Study 3 exploits natural differences in religious saliency across days of the week to provide causal evidence that religion raises deontological tendencies on Sundays and selectively increases the appeal of inaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels—these days. Why? Is it because large organizations are perceived as lacking agility, unable or unwilling to generate the impetus for development and exploitation of disruptive technologies? Is it because a new generation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

empirical implications and possible theoretical extensions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia Authors:Mikołaj J. Piskorski and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

years, curious to see if its ideas had stood the test of time. I was surprised by the book’s sober tone. It has a morning-after hangover vibe: “I guess last night was amazing, but I can’t remember it all; I must have blacked out. Now it... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization across industries. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538   Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration versus View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

include demeaning remarks, repeated threats to opt for a competitor, misrepresentations, repudiation of previously agreed provisions, last-minute demands, divide-and-conquer moves, and a waiting game that exploits the smaller firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne