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  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are complex and highly View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results are robust to controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Authors:Zvi Bodie, Robert Merton, and David Cleeton Publication:N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

facial-expression tracking is used to study viewers’ real-time emotional responses when watching comedy movie trailers online. These data are used to predict both viewers’ intentions to watch the movie and the movie’s box office success. The authors then propose an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

guidance on the design of optimal call patterns in route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for specialist physicians, whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right path. The authors provide View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

get in a small country with a robust alumni club.) But Macridis says his optimism is rooted in the rational: “Kyriakos understands what makes the economy tick and what investors need. He has introduced a new... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know a lot about topics such as determining the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Questions By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In Figuring It Out, world-renowned investing and finance guru Charles Ellis delivers a robust collection of incisive essays on an array of perennial and contemporary investing issues, from... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

studies of live dyadic conversations, we identify a robust and consistent relationship between question-asking and liking: people who ask more questions are better liked by their conversation partners. When people are instructed to ask... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

optimize brand exposure they need information on how to best retain consumers' attention from moment-to-moment during television advertising. This large-scale eye tracking study shows that the decision to zap or not to zap depends on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne