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  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

fixed and observable measure of ability," Weinzierl continues. "That is where height comes in. It turns out that each inch of height is associated with about a 2 percent higher wage among white males in the United States. Wage is View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

whose value proposition is based on heritage—in this case “achievements for the benefit of mankind” (derived directly from Alfred Nobel’s will). It is also defined as a “networked brand,” one where four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

of brilliance, raining down like manna from some deity of inspiration. Teaching people how to be creative, on the other hand, is like teaching them how to be tall—that is, impossible. These days, as global competition intensifies, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

It's a truism for many that in American politics money buys influence. In one recent poll, 75 percent of respondents said they believed "money buys results in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

no legal duty to protect or serve the companies whose shares they own; they are shielded by the doctrine of limited liability from legal responsibility for those companies’ debts and misdeeds; they may buy and sell shares without... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

such fees. Finally, endogenous affiliation on both sides (consumers and advertising) leads to stronger incentives to divert search relative to the one-sided exogenous affiliation (vertical integration) benchmark, whenever the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

our Classmates in an effort to elevate this message: “On behalf of your Black classmates: we’re not okay, and you shouldn’t be either”. The letters are meant to remove the onus too often placed on Black students to discuss and teach... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

that mature on the same date. Franey must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of his fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes considerable detail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

disappeared. In the United Kingdom, however, where no such rule exists, the effect of school ties on buy recommendations stayed markedly positive. "This provides more evidence that the alumni channel is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

reduce their purchases of items when they see their friends buying them. This negative social effect reduces the revenue for this group by more than 14 percent. This finding is consistent with the typical fashion cycle wherein opinion... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

from a 4/27/09 opinion on The Huffington Post coauthored with U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), M.D. Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

in which Merrill, BofA, and the government attempted to negotiate the acquisition. This case focuses class discussion on several decisions-whether BofA should have initially agreed to buy Merrill Lynch,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne