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- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
searching for answers from others? Or are there "best practices" of which we need constantly to remind ourselves through reading and dialogue? Is this especially true now? What do you think? Original Article Leadership has fascinated View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
successful companies, the stage of the portfolio company (risky early stage versus less-risky later stage), and how much media attention the company had received at the time of investment. Controlling for these factors, they found that... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
relationships with the parliamentarians--he built his business in part around this opportunity. Many academics emphasize the benefits of stability. When we see wobbly political regimes or uncertainty in the law, we assume it is detrimental to business. We favor stable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
are the largest employer of minimum wage workers but also because they have a fairly high turnover rate—about 5 percent of restaurants go out of business each year. Using data obtained from Yelp, the researchers looked at reviews of about... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate leadership View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
their time considering the implications of a set of global standards. My work, and that of others in the area, shows that global differences in accounting have important economic impacts. For example, in my peer-reviewed research I have... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
conduct an empirical investigation on the impact of pooling tasks and resources on throughput times in a discretionary work setting. We use an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data (N = 234,334)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
considerations in choosing gig work, despite the lack of benefits and legal protections that other employees enjoy. Armed with data on 426,385 meal-delivery drivers working for DoorDash in California, Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor in the Strategy Unit... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
is pitching to a black umpire, he is more likely to win the whole game." Parsons speculates that the discrimination may not be conscious. Since the effects increase as the game goes on, he suggests the animosity that can grow between a pitcher and an umpire over... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
others. Result: Carnegie Steel became the low cost, high quality producer of a commodity vital to the creation of the modern world. Carnegie sold his company to J.P. Morgan, who used it as the fulcrum for United States Steel, in 1901.... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
ability to select and interact with consumers with little regard for time or geography. As with earlier media transformations, the greatest benefit will go to those who comprehend and embrace the new medium most quickly, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I disagree. Google controls a variety of characteristics of its... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
to academic study, representatives of some of the groups pointed out. "We come from a country that is closed. People are not used to opening themselves up to information, and companies are fearful of showing their own weak points to one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
Walmart, and Etsy ate that part of Amazon’s lunch that Amazon couldn’t finish. One problem for Amazon was its inability to meet the tremendous demand surge for online services and products. Its stockouts increased and delivery times... View Details