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- 01 Dec 2020
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US history for hundreds of years, so when I read headlines like that, as a consumer and as an Indian American, I’m already skeptical: Why do you think my demographic matters now? We’re doing some data analysis in partnership with... View Details
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and as investors. The next three modules look at a variety of financing models across the venture's life cycle, with an aim to understanding the incentives of each type of investor, the relative costs and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Hessel, Randal Weber, Sandra Denney, Lee Newcomer, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Purpose: Despite growing interest in bundled payments to reduce the costs of care, this payment method remains largely untested in cancer. This 3-year pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains relatively stable. The difference seems partly due to the fact that equal start positions increase subjects' inclination to condition their trust decisions on wealth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The comparison of 1,114 family and professional CEOs reveals that family CEOs work 9% fewer hours View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
an 85% increase in click-through rates for paid advertising and a 65% decrease in click-through rates for non-paid algorithmic search links to competing online travel agencies. As search engines increase monetization of clicks by integrating specialized services into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of close to 1. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
when energy is relatively cheap — or mispriced, critics would say, as happens when the deleterious environmental and other costs of energy are excluded. Macomber estimates that in the developed world, at any... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
J.C. Cuddy. 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture Published: December 22, 2008 Organizations with strong, adaptive cultures enjoy labor cost advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
members had the ability, as a portfolio, to deliver satisfactory returns, relative both to investor expectations and other investment vehicles. Q: How did the 110 companies fare? A: The team collected the current valuation data at the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program. Abrami emphasizes the distinction... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
can cascade into large accidents. Moreover, practices that conflate competence with toughness lead workers to ignore precautionary measures and take unnecessary risks. Thus, the costs of men's masculine striving are high, and both... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
policy, with a Pareto‐efficient objective that trades off this principle and conventional utilitarianism, is simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those that match well several features of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel