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- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find that as patent wars intensify, smartphone vendors not involved in any litigation focus more of their business in markets with weaker intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his colleagues solved a major contracting... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
should we evaluate the risks and benefits it creates for patients, employers, and investors? Emerging Strategic Priorities for Corporate Boards Professor Linda Hill ; Cheryl Beninga (MBA 1988); Shyam Gidumal (MBA 1983); Lisa Skeete Tatum... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge would have a substantial impact including cost management, throughput enhancement, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Getting Started - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
learning and case method teaching requires instructors to devote considerable time to developing their capabilities. It involves a willingness to take risks and learn from the occasional setbacks and mistakes. Through an incremental... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
George says, she became an “enabler” for the whole firm. Navigate today’s challenges. Be prepared to successfully lead your company through crises and help solve difficult global problems. In 2014, new General Motors CEO Mary Barra faced her first big crisis: A View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
challenge in order to maximize the chance of raising the required external finance? Why does it appear harder to persuade venture capital investors to finance startups in certain industries and regions and in certain periods of time? Are there View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
were worth. “Lehman had broken two basic investment rules: it bought at the top of the market and it failed to diversify its bets,” Mark T. Williams writes in Uncontrolled Risk . “Commercial real estate became a millstone around Lehman’s... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
As Amazon’s stunning pullout from New York fades into the news archives, its potent lessons for business negotiators risk being lost. Highly promising deals in diffuse multiparty settings with many potential spoilers, like Amazon’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
was a set of factors in place that made early action possible. However, some of these factors—a strong or visionary CEO, for example—are clearly idiosyncratic and company-specific. Thus it remains a question whether firms can be View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
systematic runs of short-term creditors, still imposes great risks on the global financial system. Hal warns that recent legislative efforts by the US congress have weakened the ability of regulatory bodies... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
in many cases goals do more harm than good. Worse, they can cause real damage to organizations and individuals using them. "We argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
positioning story or sizzle. The details can be filled in later. We have a process here called SEMS, or Systematic Emerging Market Selection. We do a SEMS project for every investment we make. Twice a year at our planning meeting, we talk... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
body of research has found that seeing or hearing about female leaders improves women’s self-perception and performance, countering what is known as stereotype threat, or the risk of identifying with a negative stereotype about one’s... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Italian firms over a pre-specified week and record the time devoted each day to different work activities. We focus on the distinction between time spent with insiders (employees of the firm) and outsiders (people not employed by the firm). Individual CEOs differ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-071.pdf Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk Authors:Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts, we measure the time horizon that senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne