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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average, the mere introduction of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
private creditors is positively correlated with growth; and (4) public savings are strongly positively correlated with growth, whereas the correlation between private savings and growth is flat and statistically insignificant. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
taxpayers receive a deterrence message. Comparing their subsequent tax payments to a control group allows estimating what types of taxpayers are more likely to respond to an increase in perceived audit probability. This information can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Publication:The Review of Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
and error rate. Instead, I stumbled into quite a different discovery. The statistical results I obtained were the opposite of what I'd predicted. Well-led teams with good relationships were apparently making more mistakes; there was a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29
to deploy a system of statistical control that had been developed and applied successfully in the management of the Army Air Forces. Henry Ford II had recently assumed control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
from under Mao’s control before it could make the moves that ultimately enabled it to catch up. Under Deng Xiaoping and then Jiang Zemin, government support for economic expansion really took off. Q: What are your thoughts on China’s... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
explanatory variables, controlling for player quality, total team salary, total number of players used by the team during the season (a proxy for team injuries over the course of a season), and team control... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pre-HRRP readmission rates across samples, we found that declines for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals were statistically indistinguishable from declines in two control samples. Either the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
had increased access to location data, potentially threatening to enter the real-time traffic information (RTTI) space. Current competitors Navteq and Tele Atlas were also looking to grow through global expansion. Mistele also knew that the VC firms that held View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned manufacturer in India. The company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne