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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
project, the professors aimed to provide an ethical reference point for both future and current business leaders. "We wanted a way to help companies answer these questions," Margolis says. "How do we know if we're doing well on ethics? And how do we know... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
loyalty, tradition and internal maintenance, are the monkeys. Organizations frequently show aspects of different cultures, making for dragons. Competitive and entrepreneurial firms consistently perform better than do more bureaucratic and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
continuing litigation, and (perhaps most important) damage to its reputation, which included bragging rights at Wolfsberg social events. Consider the parallels in just these two examples. Two relatively mature organizations. Both very... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
performance relative to his lifetime statistics (accumulated under other managers) is greater than when a low-quality manager takes over the team,” he wrote in his paper, Managerial Quality, Team Success,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
relatively actionable." The Upside-down Guitar Effect The next experiment explored how experts could experience the feeling of inexperience without the benefit of past documentation. Zhang hired 74 skillful right-handed guitarists to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
dominates other state-of-the-art methods for identifying investment benchmarks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48220 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
which corporate and investor behavior is changing. We did so by analyzing data from more than 2,000 companies in 23 countries, and then ranked those countries based on the degree of integration of corporate environmental and social View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination of reliability, technical... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
to speaking up. At the same time, we've been in many organizations that have pockets—groups, departments, work units—that are palpably open and actively engaged in discussion, debate, experimentation, or improvement. Other companies we know, in which voice or other... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
factories in the US,” Toffel says. Timing is everything Previous research showed that the accuracy of third-party audits is affected by factors such as the inspector’s gender and work experience. Ibáñez and Toffel wanted to look at the effect of scheduling because it’s... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52605 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
investors speculate, even mild diagnostic distortions generate substantial bubbles. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55653 Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver has a charity mindset and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
firms that historically issued frequent guidance, breaks in guidance following CEO turnovers are relatively permanent and are potentially attributable to firm-initiated changes in guidance policy. Breaks following CFO turnovers, however,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and peer disclosure of absolute and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,... View Details