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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a...
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by Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
from a Field Experiment, authored by Harvard Business School marketing professors Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas. “With so many people and resources at stake, the design of the sales force compensation plan becomes of great strategic...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
helping loan applicants while still making a profit, Los Andes was more concentrated on the means to an end—the process of training and managing the novice employees. Because it took longer to train newbies than it would take to coach...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
hosts who have never had an African-American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb’s current...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are uniquely positioned to serve or appeal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
are certain concentrated times that favor each one. Entrepreneurs are the dominant leadership archetype in the early start-up phase of an industry, especially as different players try to establish a viable business model. This was the...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
aeronautics industry has undergone ups and downs in the past decades: Large orders of planes (and engines) and their cancellation can create prosperity or wreak havoc in these concentrated labor markets. This research surfaces the...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
commercialization of technological discoveries was Documentum, which marketed an object-oriented document-management system. Xerox had undertaken a large number of projects in this area for over a decade prior to Documentum's founding,...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
management, and higher ROA. These effects are concentrated at innovating firms—those firms that are early-life-cycle or engage in R&D spending—and especially at those facing Wall Street scrutiny. Collectively, the evidence suggests...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR reform the most, namely those...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
viewed as mavericks, outside the mainstream. Companies are being pressured by foreign shareholders and competitive challenges. Many Japanese companies now have 25% of their stock owned by foreigners. In the case of the government, part of the problem is that there are...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
strong example here, with the continued success of its Quicken application against Microsoft Money. The key is finding a large enough market that requires specialized capabilities. Leverage other capabilities from keystones. Effective...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
consumers and in the communities where we operated. Contrary to competitive motives that seek to improve companies' market share, the risk management motivation mainly attempted to preserve a favorable status quo. Very often these were...
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