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  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

balanced manner." It would be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately.— Joel Weissman Although persuasion may be desirable from a medical perspective, just under half of our... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

imbalances is an important shortcoming of the recent literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-009.pdf No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks Authors:Nava Ashraf, Oriana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2023
  • News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

economy of more impacted areas slowed down because: Chinese workers were concentrated in key sectors, such as railroads, manufacturing, and mining. It was difficult and costly to quickly substitute Chinese workers with other workers in... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of new technologies of the highest and lowest quality. Our results underscore the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional memory can serve as partial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

efficiently accomplish this important strategic objective. Our core contribution is the concept of parallel play—a theoretical construct characterizing the search process by which entrepreneurial firms efficiently reach a viable business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. Aid has no measurable impact on prices or economic growth, though it does affect most components of the national income accounts. We find that much aid is consumed, primarily in the form of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

report all of their absences in advance of class into the Student Absence Notification Tool. It is important to note that Immersive Field Course class days are not eligible for excused recruiting absences, and all recruiting absences on... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis of rivals, potential entrants, suppliers, customers, and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal elasticity is one-third, optimal capital income tax rates rise to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

question whether globalization broadly and the foreign activities of American firms specifically are really fostering their welfare. As such, we've seen a dramatic increase in the importance of foreign activities, and this has given rise... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne