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- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-143.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act Authors:Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Abstract This paper analyzes the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
their findings in the newly updated working paper “Reputation Burning: Analyzing the Impact of Brand Sponsorship on Social Influencers.” They initiated the study because they were fascinated by the growing overlap between e-commerce and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
a GED, but no college and no job, we would make a big impact on this. We have to have the psychological armor to defend ourselves against the racism that's all around us. Neeley: George Floyd's death has reawakened corporate America to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors. Kaplan recently explained the ideas behind The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
high-quality ECD program of their choice. MELF had also invested in Five Hundred Under 5 (FHU5), a Minneapolis program formed to improve the capacity and quality of providers. Comparing SPECSP to FHU5 would offer insights on the potential View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
would make them seem less committed. Not surprisingly, few employers measure the impact of their employees’ caregiving responsibilities, saying that such an effort wasn’t needed, invaded workers’ privacy, or... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on state-level personal income taxes. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
layoff.) He has commented elsewhere that one reason may be the organization’s failure to select, orient, organize, and measure new remote employees in ways that enable them to work as productively and creatively as longer-term, less... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
styles would be regarded as leader-like and other styles would not being regarded as leader-like. Leadership is also complex from an economic perspective because the consequences of leadership can't always be measured by financial... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
it become such an embedded, accepted (and for publishers, profitable) practice? A: It is easy to implement. It is easy to measure. It is easy to document successes. And in laboratory experiments, it has been shown to be extremely successful at improving the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
verbal communication, the complexity in the narrative impacts the market reaction to the disclosure. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2154948 Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
how is diversity defined, what traits are you looking at to be measured, and how are they shown to improve things?” Measures of diversity are legion, but what do they mean? Measures of inclusion, which could... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance. I have seen this progression in some companies that initially turn to values as a damage control measure... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
discount off that price, and the final selling price. Limited empirical evidence is available that speaks to the relative impact of each component on purchase behavior, even as theories abound. Measuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman