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  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

clearly a signal was given: Don’t get complacent. You have to earn your keep. And if you do, you will be rewarded. A: That’s right. And people can accept more responsibility if you let them. That was a smart move because the advertising... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

incompetence. Warmth and competence judgments support systematic patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions, including ambivalent prejudices. Past views of prejudice as a univalent antipathy have obscured the unique View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

labor force attachment than accepted applicants. These findings are consistent with the theoretical prediction that disability insurance may encourage individuals to save more in the present and plan to apply for disability benefits in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be used to evaluate a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy lagging, consumers are increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet, with a cash infusion, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

belief that one can talk about errors without risk of punishment—and problem-solving efficacy—the belief that the organization will support employees' system improvement efforts—were positively correlated with frontline system improvement (FLSI). Surprisingly,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value reducing. In a recent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

in the book, were overwhelmed by Xerox's mismanagement of the computer applications for its technology. In response to the criticism set forth by the two authors, who were consultants for McKinsey, Xerox decided to improve its ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Marshall Plan for Africa. This would require government expenditures. But there's also a tremendous opportunity to match the activities of philanthropists-I know many of our HBS alums are very generous and would love to get involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" initiative, and what did it try to achieve? A: FBC was a response to rising development costs and the high-profile failures of several missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was to move... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

and 75% rise in licensing revenues from multinationals. Second, using additional information on each scientist in these labs, we examine how their research productivity changed in response to different managers. Notably, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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