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- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
patents, in particular, and business method patents more generally. Because so much of the prior work in these areas has not been patented, concerns have been expressed as to the extent to which the awards reflect this knowledge. Inspired by these issues, this paper... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
economics, in the sections that follow, we review three sets of possible interpretations for understanding the empirical facts related to the entry into, and persistence in, entrepreneurship. Differences in risk aversion provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
are you working on now? A: I'm continuing my broader research efforts to understand how the design of knowledge-intensive work affects teamwork, collaboration innovation, and ultimately performance. For example, I'm writing an empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
these predictions empirically by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in the state. Within a few years of the repeal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
a non-manufacturing setting we move beyond the artifacts and gain insight into the principles that may lead to improved performance. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal processes that the lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
produce national franchises, and attract international investment. Known for Chinggis Khaan (or Genghis Khan, as he is called in the Western world) and the Great Mongol Empire of the 13th century, we Mongols are proud of our long history;... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
invest in external R&D to acquire new product lines and in internal R&D to improve their existing product lines. A baseline model derives the theoretical implications of weaker scaling for external R&D versus internal R&D, and the resulting predictions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
repetitive in nature. We introduce the concept of a restart effect—task and temporal disruptions that stimulate worker productivity—as a means of addressing challenges of repetitive work. For our empirical analyses, we use two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the institutionalization of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
show that the empirical results are driven entirely by newly eligible households that did not enroll, suggesting uninsured risk from leaving wage employment is the primary barrier to entrepreneurship for this population. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
flat and statistically insignificant. These empirical facts contradict the conventional wisdom and constitute a challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They vary widely in their responses. We theorize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Enterprise Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development By: Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin Abstract—Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies. This paper reviews the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763 Finding Excuses to Decline the Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—A growing body of empirical evidence documents a reluctance to give.... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent co-authorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne