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  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

commitment to recurring donations. An online experiment reveals that the 75% contingent match drives commitment to recurring donations because it simultaneously provides social proof yet offers a low enough target that it remains View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting the two, and further reconcile how a company's future plan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or brands) can face a larger demand for new products than new entrants. Moreover, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

the very aspect that offended Schumpeter: a plausible diagnosis of the Great Depression, and a prescription for its cure. However legitimate Schumpeter's protests may have been—and a flood of scholarship over the next four decades washed... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

the first-differenced advertising series is plausibly exogenous over the sample period. We find that advertising has a positive and statistically significant effect on expected revenues, but that the effect varies strongly across movies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. Decisions that seem View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

economics, in the sections that follow, we review three sets of possible interpretations for understanding the empirical facts related to the entry into, and persistence in, entrepreneurship. Differences in risk aversion provide a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider, as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

perspectives, or points of view. "There's got to be a plausible tension in the case," says W. Carl Kester, chair of the M.B.A. program and Industrial Bank of Japan professor of finance. "It's what allows me to build a... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

commercially or have direct contractual relations. The framework aims to ground the responsibilities of managers in an intuitively plausible standard that is widely recognizedd—duty not to harm others—and to make tractable the concept of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

or decrease optimal redistribution. In the most plausible specifications of the model, however, the result is clear: greater variation in preferences lowers the optimal extent of redistribution. To generate more redistribution than in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

prior theory of subsidiary absorptive capacity and argue that larger subsidiaries, characterized by greater knowledge stock and a greater fraction of local employees, could plausibly absorb more knowledge from the local host country... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

substantial variation across lenders, even within a particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

year dummies. These effects separate across groups in a pattern that appears broadly plausible (e.g., the rich suffer environmental degradation more than the poor). Based on actual changes from 1975 to 1997, small contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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