Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (610) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 22 of 610 Results →
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

cultural differences along which societies and organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Unleashed

lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Roche and Boudou considered several explanations for their findings: whether the technology driving the startup was too new or not good enough, and whether the founders took too central a role in controlling or managing the company. Ultimately, they View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

of individual investors are able to wield great influence on management teams of companies in their investment portfolios. By contrast, index funds almost run on autopilot—with no active investor analyzing companies, rewarding those that make good financial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World Bank Economic Review, 2010 Abstract Most major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

50 Years & Counting

and the Entrepreneurial Mind-set Janet Kraus "The entrepreneurial path is a great place for women to make career rules the way they see them." - JANET KRAUS HBS senior lecturer Janet Kraus doesn't much like the phrase "having it all,"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines in use, the less important it is to have one. These network effects influence consumer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott, eds. Publication: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming No abstract available. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book Author: Rawi Abdelal, ed. Publication: Singapore: World... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

Wasserman Abstract—This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. An Introduction to Real Estate Finance by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981) (Academic Press) This textbook for... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207019 CMM versus Agile: Methodology Wars in Software Development Harvard Business School Case 607-084 A CIO decides whether to adopt the "Capability Maturity Model" (CMM) within her IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given complete information about auction payoff rules and in settings where they are given no information about auction payoff rules, subjects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

institutional structures than firms. Political scientists, although more interested in firms, have focused primarily on the politics and policy decisions which impacted and drove globalization. Sociologists, who have approached the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

scholars and practitioners had addressed specific ethical issues in negotiation, no one had taken a comprehensive look at the process. Our collection [in What's Fair] includes articles by economists, lawyers, decision analysts,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

instead, it has become integrated with the whole manufacturing process—David Upton But once that decision has been made, "sitting" is far from the operative word for IT systems, which require the same kind of continuous... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner