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- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the job, seeing the View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
providing quality care and access while controlling costs. Many businesses are also incorporating employee-centered values and socially responsible values into their core missions; these can appeal strongly...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
landlords on Airbnb with their rental prices and information about quality of the rentals, we show that non-black hosts charge approximately 12% more than black hosts for the equivalent rental. These effects are robust when View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students. Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by 36% and lead to a 7% increase in average attendance relative to the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
increased its involvement in developing commercial enterprises? Yes, it has. In addition to providing outstanding education, competitive communities must offer high quality goods and services — an escalating need in our neighborhood...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also rank among the most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-148.pdf PublicationsOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Phenomenological...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal measurement and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and elaborate on their normative implications. Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan Authors:Douglas J. Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We study events surrounding...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
these modalities. An incomplete understanding of the value of costly, yet effective, technologies could impede medical innovation and decrease the quality of cancer care through a reduction of patient access by third-party payers. With...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
right leadership style by knowing which levers shape organizational capabilities and how to use them Use power and politics to address resistance and maintain control during a transition Understand the link between personal and...
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