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- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
an average of 58 minutes per day on their smartphones, according to a recent report from Experian Marketing Services. Talking accounts for only 26 percent of that time. The other 73 percent is devoted to texting, e-mail, social... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
skepticism, are beginning to overdose. The bust likes to think of itself as a radical departure from the boom, but it has in common with it one big thing: a mob mentality.” Likewise, the economist Charles Kindleberger, in his seminal 1978 book on the history of View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household attention allocation operates along... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets manage to attract investors to buy their shares (and bonds). In this article, we examine this apparent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
exchange. Study 3 demonstrated that sarcasm's effect on creativity for both parties was mediated by abstract thinking and generalizes across different forms of sarcasm. Finally, Study 4 found when participants expressed sarcasm toward or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
dollars in value, Kominers and his co-authors reported in Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply in the March 12 issue of Science. “The value of being able to produce vaccines at scale the minute they clear trials is... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly held View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
disrupted. At a plenary session at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen expanded on the work highlighted in his 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Disruptive technologies such as the personal computer have... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
you pay full price, and Adobe Limited Edition. It actually costs more to make that, because you've got to change the code to strip things out. But at least you've segmented the markets." Market Makers And Inter-business Processes The... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
Cyberspace is indeed a brave new world, but it's not the only new world. There have been other moments in time that undoubtedly felt very much like the present era, other moments when technology raced faster than governments and called forth whole new View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
was what this free product would do to print revenues. Third, experiments and innovation require time and, by definition, a tolerance for failure. Trouble is, quarterly reporting pressures by public markets do not create the most... View Details