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- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
globe which match (this) School of Management and produce high quality talent." Winfried Hermann Schoepf expressed concerns about whether we will be admiring Google's approach to management in the future. "I have some doubt... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
brokerages have signaled that they are not getting rid of these operations. In addition to the $1.4 billion conflict of interest settlement, the self-regulatory organizations that govern brokerages have issued new rules. The National... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
signal to constituencies); c) avoiding (or making) statements that inflame (or mollify) the other side's internal opponents; d) helping the other side attractively frame the deal for Level II acceptability; e) providing the ingredients... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
changes and a common contributor of decision-making biases: forecasting of demand. By over-reaction we mean that the manager over (under) orders when seeing a change in demand. We show that our representative manifestations of forecasting—managers' subjective response... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
class grew with large disposable income, and these foreign brands returned, it pushed the local brands to improve their quality and services. Competition rose and consumers benefitted. Q: So at this very fortunate time, Ranjan Kapur comes... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
the type of financing firm. The additional empirical results allow us to distinguish the property-rights explanation from alternative stories, based on uncertainty and asymmetric information about the project quality or research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance measures of service View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
largely government had little role. But eventually the cumulative negative effects of the bad policies became overwhelming. By the mid-1980s, the evidence was quite clear that Japan was in trouble. We just didn't see the signals until the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Two sets of studies illustrate the comparative nature of disclosure behavior. The first set investigates how divulgence is affected by signals about others' readiness to divulge. Study 1A shows a "herding" effect, such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
features or discovered bugs. Feed its direct and indirect network effects. Support as much as possible the independent software vendor community so that the quantity and quality of complements is substantially above that of Linux.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
contextual features influence the expression of these needs, sustaining or undermining the positive emotional experiences that fuel work engagement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53578 December 2017 Mayo Clinic Proceedings:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
General (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
irregularities. This suggests that for U.S. listed foreign firms, less frequent restatements can be a signal of opportunistic reporting rather than high quality earnings Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne