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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
of capital for startups and established companies." C. Bruce Johnstone (MBA '66), managing director of Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual fund giant, observes that mutual funds have played a significant role as the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
their broader interests were at stake and that it would be profitable in the long run for them to be reasonable when Indonesia was in the middle of a crisis. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing papers that expand on some View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
likely it was to end up in a press article early. The more people that are involved, the more people may be able to observe something funny going on as well. That shows when there's lower cost, the press is more likely to do this—which... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
observed about the resource allocation process in large, complex organizations applies when considering small, emerging firms. And related to that, I am exploring how resource allocation patterns shape strategy redirection efforts in new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker will deem her mistaken theory implausible. The central... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
significant capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
money to be cooperative; (2) players cooperate at heightened levels when their opponents are predictably cooperative; and (3) players whose observable characteristics predict less cooperation fare worse (monetarily) over time, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
place aversion in queues and its implications for customer experiences and behaviors, as well as for operating performance. An observational analysis of customers queuing at a grocery store, and four online field studies in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
that emerged from experimentation. Interpretation of such observations leads us to new propositions about the interplay of design and identity in times of radical change. Overall, the propositions suggest that after a dramatic shock,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. We discuss implications for both future research and practice. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
the old economy looked good again. "People didn't know where else to invest," observes Jeff Furber (MBA '84), president and CEO of AEW Capital Management, a Boston investment advisory firm with $30 billion under management.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
"A small percentage of students are intrigued by and support the complete meritocracy they see at Lincoln," DeLong notes. "But the majority rejects the piecework system, although international students do seem more familiar with it from View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
interest rates (the slope of the yield curve) is currently quite large by historical standards. Some observes attribute this to the fact that the Fed policy of lowering short-term interest rates over the last few years has not fully... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Press, 2009 Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,... View Details