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- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
different, with unemployment at 27 percent unemployment and recidivism at almost 77 percent in 2022. Some $88 billion was spent per year to run the sprawling prison system in the United States, with the New York University Center for Justice View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
motivated, and practically useful approach to estimating multi-period ahead-expected returns. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 August 2013 Corporations and Citizenship Corporate Power and the Public Good By: Paine, Lynn... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
and exit from the U.S. energy sector. The model's quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the right answer becomes the wrong answer," says MacCormack. "Being there on the ground and observing yourself is different from learning something in a report from afar." Mayo estimates that about a third of global... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of test assets that include the 25 Fama and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
sponsored search advertising. Industry estimates indicate that Google earns dramatically higher fees for each search.5 By assigning substantial traffic to Google, Yahoo can increase its short-run revenues.6 But if Yahoo assigns much of... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the exact pay dispersion of each work team and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Back-of-the-envelope welfare estimates indicate that the 3.9% increase in patent grants at the USPTO could potentially create $1.16 billion in value for the U.S. economy. Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
First, Study 1 shows that chronic matchmaking is associated with higher well-being. Studies 2 and 3 show that matching others on the basis of how well they will get along leads to a greater increase in happiness and is more intrinsically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
search costs to locate discounted items. Our results show that increasing search frictions can be used as a self-selecting price discrimination tool to match high discounts with price-sensitive consumers and full-priced offerings with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
destination firm in 10% of our sample, which is significantly higher than in a matched sample. Analyst-manager "co-migration" is significantly stronger when both firms are within the same industry. Analysts who move with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence of skill and exit style differences even among venture partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne