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  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush toward change. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems — particularly by business itself... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

information, and attempting to influence the work of others. An employee with a narrow span of influence does not need to pay much attention to people outside his small area to do his job effectively. An individual with a wide span must... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295054   Working Papers Span of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

it. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708044 EFI, Inc. (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-044 EFI has a unique sales compensation challenge. They cannot allocate sales credit for their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

client and project context. Leading firms recognize this is not effective and so insist on greater staff continuity. While expensive in the near term, the long-term payoff is deemed worthwhile. Leading firms also pay greater attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

views matter. And it can turn departing employees into corporate ambassadors for years to come. Unfortunately, too few leaders pay attention to this tool; their programs fail to either improve retention or produce useful information. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

possible responses to this shortage: Sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network incentives impede transition. Paid transfers of IP addresses would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

analytical research posits that low-powered incentives can motivate employees to generate creative ideas by diverting their attention away from fixating on performance measures associated with their standard tasks included in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

Authors:Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Cases of clear scientific misconduct have received significant media attention recently, but less flagrant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

  PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts: employers cannot give full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by existing firms. We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved allocative efficiency across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

different markets with different customers and employ different business models than those traditionally successful in the established organization, they are typically undervalued by that organization. Managers refuse to provide the necessary financing or they simply... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim