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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its aftermath have focused attention on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide theoretical and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not been View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

"Nationalisms rise as empires fall," he writes. "New states necessarily have fluid identities, which societies are in the process of choosing. And the sovereignties of new states in post-imperial contexts tend to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

person in need, which, in turn, increased intentions to help. Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis Authors:Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (December 2011) Abstract This paper View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

account for 96%–97% of this variance. Further analysis reveals that customers report relatively consistent satisfaction across transactions, but that some customers are habitually more satisfied than others. An empirical investigation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical simulations and suggestive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

marketplace, then the tradeoff is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail (respectively, short-tail) products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each mode. We also provide some empirical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

introduce a framework to unpack the multiple dimensions of experience that exist within one unit of work. We then empirically examine the customer-, domain-, and technology—specificity of learning. Our View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

asset returns. We present empirical evidence that bears on some of the model’s distinctive predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50677 Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is perceived to be. In fact, at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

research shows strong empirical evidence that diverse boards can lead to increased corporate performance. A diversity of thought, perspective, and experience makes better boards, and it’s the right thing to do.” To help build the Board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we provide among the first View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

demonstrate, a coordination perspective helps resolve some empirical puzzles, but it also represents a challenge to received wisdom grounded in the salience of cooperation. To stimulate future research, we discuss alternative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique data set from Cyworld, Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and HBS professor Sunil Gupta empirically assess if friends indeed... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

Abstract Go-shop provisions have changed the way in which private equity firms execute public-company buyouts. While there has been considerable practitioner commentary on go-shops in the three years since they first appeared, this paper presents the first systematic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace