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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Behavioral Decision Making The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making By: Karmarkar, Uma R. Abstract—The way a choice set is constructed can have a significant influence on how individuals perceive and evaluate their options... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
research, which the authors believe is the first attempt to measure the impact of strict ID laws on voter fraud. Their paper is titled Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
colleagues measured how the big firms lobbied on proposed accounting regulations. His paper, coauthored with HBS doctoral student Abigail M. Allen and Boston College accounting professor Sugata Roychowdhury, is titled The Auditing... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
performance—by legitimate means or, if push comes to shove, by illegitimate ones. If the measure is profits, for instance, she will have a strong incentive to increase the current year's earnings at the expense of next year's, either by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
organization profits. Order the book: http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Calls-Twelve-Stories-Decisions/dp/142215811X From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival Authors:Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
Buildings Authors:Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
accounts were less likely to employ the same level of security measures (such as multifactor authentication) common among organizational accounts. According to the study, “changes to code under the control of these individual developer... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
effect,” Donnelly says. “Going into this, we weren’t sure if we’d see any difference. But we observed about 200 people in a two-week period making a drink change. To impact that many people, we think that’s pretty significant.” John adds,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
whether 10 percent or something else, can be measured is a puzzle. Gerald Nanninga commented that " (the) 90 percent which is attributable to the 'environment' fails to take into account (the) fact that somebody somewhere made some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
novel” To gauge the impact of receiving what economists call a “cashflow shock,” researchers looked at the introduction of Medicare Part D, which expanded coverage for patients over the age of 65. That would result in more drug sales,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
the behavior of political leaders, the impact of the 9/11 attacks, and scientists’ statements about global warming and gasoline prices. Also included are studies of attitude strength that compare the causes and consequences of various... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. Another developing area of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
employees make or how many units they produce. “The objective performance measures don’t take into consideration whether the machine broke down or whether someone is still learning the job,” Gallani explains. To compensate, managers often... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus proviso often precludes convincing empirical assessments of the magnitude of status effects. We address this problem by examining the impact of a major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
waters, with asymmetric and unpredictable shocks hitting throughout the value chain. In such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing. Many companies interviewed in our project took extreme View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace