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- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios based on book-to-market, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has traditionally been difficult. Manifestations of homophily, the notion that individuals tend to interact with others who resemble them, have been observed in many small and intermediate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains unchallenged. Quantile regressions reveal that the distributional effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract—Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
invariably cleared to facilitate circulation. The quiet that reigns on campus is surprising given its size and density. With more than thirty-four acres of land devoted exclusively to the educational endeavor and a daytime... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
has held that sheer corporate size could ensure industry dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit “blind spot.” While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota “strives to use its... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
like, given the size of the bets they’re making. The second and academic interest is that we learn much more from a developing country than a developed one. Roads, railroads, and harbors in the United States, for example, were all built... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first time on the HBS campus is struck by its size. When walking to my office, visitors looking for the "main HBS campus" often stop me. They assume the School must be located in only one or two buildings. I explain that most buildings around them belong to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
and shows that effects of a similar size can be achieved by holding people accountable through feedback text messages, without any meetings or peer pressure. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42103 Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability of trading signals, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
experts say, in two notable ways: Labor agreements, financially generous but tightly circumscribed regarding worker activity, have hindered innovative uses of the workforce, while in the executive suites, conventional wisdom mistakenly has held that sheer corporate... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
centralized fulfillment center instead of selling from a large number of decentralized pharmacies, and then encourage those people—essentially by cutting the size of their co-pay—to place their orders by phone, renew their prescriptions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
— some contradictory, some pointless, some incoherent — and the manifestly small size of the occupation force became clear, the cost of resisting and escalating resistance became less and less. In addition to the insurgency, is there a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
strategies for the firm and find market conditions under which the firm would benefit most from implementing BPS. We show that the optimal operating and licensing strategies are driven by the size of the cost reduction enabled by the BPS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace