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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52718 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

positively correlated with the use of e-business practices. However,there is an important distinction between e-buying and e-selling. In e-buying, the likelihood of adoption is increasing in both relative productivity and in market share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

cause or not. Each situation is different. It may depend on the nature of the CEO’s shortcomings and the terms of their contract. Was the problem merely poor company performance (rarely regarded as “cause”), poor judgment (a borderline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading to the overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2

Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

particular individual or branch of the family. Figure 1: Governance structures of the family business system Most experts agree that a family company board should be a relatively small group of about five to eight members. It should... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

odds of surviving a heart attack—almost eliminated the regional performance differences of hospitals. "Why are Black and white patients who live in the same ZIP code, who are both covered by Medicare and can go anywhere, being treated at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

relatively little about IT? A: Among a few key differences between the management styles of Jim Barton (trained as a general manager) and his predecessor Bill Davies (trained as an IT specialist), the most important is arguably in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

major players by virtue of their scale and the scope of their activities, and in some communities they have been the only consistent service providers in a generation," he observes. "They can assess their performance much further down the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

capita income differences: in short, the longer the lag in technology adoption for any given nation, the lower the per capita income. Was The Wealth Of Nations Determined In 1000 Bc? Further research showed that a region's economic View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done using stock often View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds can be based on insights gained... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

economy as a whole. Micro is about firms and individual actors and how they behave; macro is about aggregate performance of the economy: overall GDP, trade surplus or deficit, inflation. In principle, we should be able to get rid of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variation in spending after accounting for physician beliefs. Physician organizational factors matter, but the single most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment: 35% of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

directly on the nature of the barriers that you face. When you have a potential deal in mind, we have developed a set of tools to quickly perform what we call a "3-D barriers audit" to determine what barriers stand between you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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