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- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
"Regional Disadvantage? Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain," the researchers show that non-competes indeed factor into an inventor's decision to emigrate, within the United States, to states that disallow non-competes. "It's clear...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
when an impulsive decision could have led to an explosion, or failure to tie in to a scaffolding could have resulted in a deadly fall, many reported that disregard for safety, fierce independence, and bravado had been badges of honor. In...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay is generally not that it fails...
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be...
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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Traditional capital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
LauHarvard Business School Case 212-026 ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent or be taken over by a large bank in the region....
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Sean Silverthorne
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about the work that boards do and the critical decisions they make; how boards select company leaders, shape strategy, and oversee performance; the complex dynamics among boards, executives, and shareholders; the changing rights and...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, the way people behave, and the resources they use. Transformational reforms typically involve a decision to change a suite of institutional arrangements...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organizational scholarship—like social science more broadly—turned rather resolutely away from theory toward statistical research and developed an intense preoccupation with narrowly circumscribed empirical studies. When compared to the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
a syllabus and course outline, and using established educational theory in practical situations. Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable by Darria Long Gillespie Da Capo...
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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Galinsky Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female faculty become "academic...
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Sean Silverthorne