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  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20ariely%20in%20press.pdf   Working PapersThe Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

  Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The Impact of Patent Wars on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

British merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, especially in developing economies, including both British colonies and the independent nations of Latin America. While these types of business groups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a good fit to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be applicable to firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

Accounting Review Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting By: Srinivasan, Suraj, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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