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  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Who's Responsible for Erasing America's Shortage of Skilled Workers?

  • March 2015
  • Background Note

Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert White and Stephanie Puzio
Setting equitable and "market" level compensation for founders and early employees of startups is one of the most important elements of a new venture. It is not only central to attract and retain the best human capital for the startup, but is critical to align... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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  • October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank

Shinsei Bank was rebuilt from the ashes of a failed predecessor, and pioneered new levels of customer service in retail banking in Japan. The bank's information technology, however, was vestigial at best and not well suited to the new service models Shinsei was... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • 25 Oct 2013
  • News

Why Hire an MBA When You Can Rent One?

  • 10 Sep 2018
  • News

Get your team to help you to switch off the ‘always on’ culture

    Building Climate-Resilient Cities and Infrastructure

    This episode in our climate adaptation series features HBS Professor John Macomber. John discusses how companies and governments need to incorporate climate resilience as they develop and finance real estate and infrastructure to address the risks of flooding,... View Details
    • June 2021
    • Case

    Modern Endowment Management: Paula Volent and the Bowdoin Endowment

    By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Dean Xu
    This case examines modern endowment investment management through the lens of a leadership transition between Chief Investment Officers (CIOs). In March 2021, Paula Volent is about to step down as the CIO of the endowment of Bowdoin College after twenty-one years, and... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Banking; Growth Management; Investment Return; Capital Markets; Interest Rates; Competition; Cost Management; Risk Management; Financial Liquidity; Performance Evaluation
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    • August 2021
    • Article

    Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap

    By: Abhishek Nagaraj
    The wild success of a few online communities (like Wikipedia) has obscured the fact that most attempts at forming such communities fail. This study evaluates information seeding, an early-stage intervention to bootstrap online communities that enables contributors to... View Details
    Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Production; Crowdsourcing; Innovation; Digitization; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

    By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
    We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
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    • 1998
    • Working Paper

    Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
    It is often difficult to evaluate all the costs and benefits of the welfare state. This paper suggests an alternative approach based on surveys of citizen satisfaction with welfare programs. In the first part of the paper we estimate the level of unemployment benefits... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Employment; Surveys; Programs; Government and Politics; Age; Income; Residency; Welfare; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost vs Benefits; Satisfaction; United Kingdom
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    • 17 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Kevin Boudreau, Harvard Business School, London Business School

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Debiasing Treatment Effect Estimation for Privacy-Protected Data: A Model Auditing and Calibration Approach

    By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
    Data-driven targeted interventions have become a powerful tool for organizations to optimize business outcomes by utilizing individual-level data from experiments. A key element of this process is the estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE), which... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Marketing
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    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    false promises. Many companies have offered stock options to upper level employees. But “options are fragile in a way most people don’t understand,” Hall says, “and over half of the time they fall underwater” if the market as a whole... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • May 2024
    • Article

    Moral Thin-Slicing: Forming Moral Impressions from a Brief Glance

    By: Julian De Freitas and Alon Hafri
    Despite the modern rarity with which people are visual witness to moral transgressions involving physical harm, such transgressions are more accessible than ever thanks to their availability on social media and in the news. On one hand, the literature suggests that... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Judgement; Thin Slices; Social Media; Fake News; Misinformation; Moral Sensibility; News; Behavior
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    • 21 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

    may impact their work and even lead them to consider leaving the company, leaders need to find ways to reduce anxiety within the organization to help employees cope with the situation. “The experience of negative emotions at the collective View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Research Summary

    Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
    We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-defined... View Details
    Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

    By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
    In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 17 May 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

    that the resume screening game is stacked against them and that they need to hide their race to level the playing field. The researchers interviewed 59 Asian and African American students between the ages of 18 and 25 who were seeking... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Antecedents and Consequences of Trust in Intraorganizational Relations: An International Comparison

    This project moves the level of analysis to the intraorganizational level. The empirical context consists of internal relationships between the Information Systems (IS) function and the user groups. Are better project management techniques, better software development... View Details