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  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

Katrina on the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005; major earthquakes like the ones in Pakistan in 2005, Wenchuan in 2008, Haiti in 2010, Chile in 2010, and Christchurch in 2010—these and other catastrophic events catapult people and response View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

associated biomarkers, placing an emphasis on the factors affecting their development, pricing, and access. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52453 Theory of Machine: When Do People Rely on Algorithms? By:... View Details
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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017

Courses Seven second-year MBA courses—in Los Angeles, London, the United Kingdom, Africa, China, Taiwan, and Japan—enabled more than 250 students to put theory into practice. Faculty leaders drew on their research and industry connections... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

  Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

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
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700   Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510053-PDF-ENG Family Corporate Governance: A Brief Literature Review Lena G. Goldberg and David KironHarvard Business School Note 311-055 This note discusses competing theories of governance in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

and valuation of the goods. However, we also show that firms' agency is circumscribed not only by the context they are embedded in, but also by the actions of other firms as well as noncommercial entities in the ecosystem. Q: Does your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

"marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. These findings are consistent with a simple mental accounting model but are not consistent with the standard permanent income or lifecycle theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

advertisers use in-house rather than independent advertising agencies and examines inter-industry variation in such internalization. Contrary to the widely held impression that use of an in-house advertising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

you elaborate a little on why this is important? A: Frankly, this always the case regardless of whether they operate at the TOP or BOP of the pyramid, except that at the top, there are enough agencies protecting consumers, and consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green strategies. It identifies major commonalities between corporate strategies in the German and American chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

bit of a crazy cycle.” But it’s also a bit of an understandable cycle. Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels of uncertainty and the longer time frames that it requires. But, if you’re a sophisticated space... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace