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- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and their firm's overall performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Campbell, January/February 2005). 2004 Malcolm P. Baker : Nominated for the 2004 Brattle Prize for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Jeffrey Wurgler. "A Catering Theory of Dividends."... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2019. David B. Yoffie : Recognized as one of the Top Five Bestselling Case Authors (out of over 8,000 authors) for The Case Centre in 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19. 2018 Bharat N. Anand : Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal for the Best... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/3/257/pdf Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate Authors:Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Organ donations from deceased donors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53161 forthcoming European Accounting Review The Role of Overbilling in Hospitals' Earnings Management Decisions By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—This paper examines the role of overbilling in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2019
- Supplement
Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
own group. “The big story here is that people do favors for other people who are like themselves,” he says. So, Bazerman decided he would meet with prospective students only after they received their admission decisions to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
John H. McArthur | About
complex stakeholders. By the time he became dean, McArthur had a reputation as a skilled negotiator with a talent for resolving thorny conflict, and a tough-minded but rational decision maker who worked with others in considerate and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2019
- Case
Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
Esty, Benjamin C., Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020." Harvard Business School Case 220-003, November 2019.
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
priorities of shareholder management are clear: shareholders have the loudest voice and the greatest influence. Some may argue that this notion became distorted by an element of agency theory that advocated outsized incentives for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Overview
By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
decide whether they want to try to restructure the nature of the engagement to better fit the firm's service model. Although young and small, the firm has grown successfully and is optimistic about its future prospects. Kutchins and Cullen thus want to make View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
and decision making? According to new research, there seems to be a link between luxury and self interest, an insight that may help curb corporate excesses. Roy Y.J. Chua of Harvard Business School discusses findings from his work... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Research Summary
Overview
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
engineers were capable of calibrating the recommendation algorithm to do this. Decisions were based on the knowledge that “outrage equals attention” and that “clickbait” (misleading headlines for content of dubious value) had to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
decisively won the game in that market, it introduced a relational database at the low end of its mainframe market, attempting to block Oracle's advance. Look to target customers and company announcements to see if companies are following... View Details