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  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the role of individual differences and social context in hypodescent, the process of assigning multiracials the status of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

  Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

valuation of the startup by 17.1%-22.0%. April 2015 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—The price indexation of Social Security... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

has it, so why is it interesting?" she says. "I think it's pretty sexy plumbing." “There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards” McElheran believes IT has the potential to completely transform the supply... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

some people's inputs count more than their actual knowledge warrants, to the detriment of the project. The problem is common—and avoidable, says HBS professor Heidi K. Gardner, who has developed and tested a theory of pressure on teams... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

Means, whose 1932 book The Modern Corporation and Private Property has been lauded as the most important business book of all time, our paper unveils new research on the legal framework underpinning... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

concern that those findings might have been the result of different qualities of the responses. The design we report in our paper solves that problem: We hold the response constant and vary only the question... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

  Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer.  Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

are the average experience in PE partnerships, Ivashina says. In their working paper released in March, Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership, she and Lerner found that a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

managed. We are continuing to work on this topic. Finally, we are working on a paper that examines whether higher-quality colleagues can act as a retention mechanism for knowledge workers. E-mail Boris Groysberg View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often take partners to teahouses to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace