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  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

use this as a natural experiment to test whether a waiting period would impact homicides and suicides in states that were subject to the policy. The federal law—named after former White House press secretary... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the anticipated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

uncertainty, the complex and heterogeneous nature of the scientific knowledge base, and the rapid pace of scientific progress. "The health of the sector depends on how well it can cope with all three of these challenges," writes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

are addressed in the May 2019 paper Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism, published in the journal Organization & Environment. Toffel’s case study CEO Activism is taught to HBS MBA students. The Tim Cook experiments To gauge the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

314-087 Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain outcomes, and a limited View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

effect, these individuals bridge the lacunae between distant groups in the company's social structure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-004.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

retailers gain experience with discount vouchers, these matters may become routine. But for now, there's ample room for error, creating important risks for retailers that fall short of applicable consumer protections. Q: How does the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent [companies], just by View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

research on potential employers. 19. The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to 'Simplifiers' The mass consumption of the 1990s is fast fading in the rearview mirror. Now a growing number of people want to declutter their lives and invest in View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

might meet face-to-face with NGO leaders or create an outlet to field NGO inquiries. Anecdotal and case study evidence suggests that stonewalling NGOs may only serve to fuel the fires of activism. Q: What strategies would you recommend... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

career relationships help to build up organizations. The study of careers seems to act as a powerful lens for examining the birth of biotech. Higgins, who specializes in research, teaching, and course development surrounding the field of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

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