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- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
everyone needs to measure impact.” "There are two big conversations among nonprofit leaders," says HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim. "One is around accountability. The second focuses on performance, particularly impact." Ebrahim is teaching in Performance... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
However, that’s not the reality of the enterprise world. Big enterprises by default are averse to change unless they are convinced the alternative is worth their business development effort and the time involved of the legal-finance team... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
as quite possibly record numbers of businesses (and individuals) default on their debt, restructure, or go bankrupt. The number of US business bankruptcy filings in the first quarter of this year is already up substantially over prior... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity investors had more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
course? Michael Luca: A deeper appreciation of the ways in which small—and sometimes subtle—changes in the way a process or product is structured can make a difference. Our intuition about these effects can also be off, which is why... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making Course Number 2236 Associate Professor Joshua Schwartzstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Project Course Description Effective managers need sound judgment to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their homes. But underwater is a misnomer. People underwater either swim... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
decision to invest in a very large and very risky project. If done as part of the corporate balance sheet, there is a possibility that the project could drag the parent or "sponsoring" company into default if the project gets... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
opportunities versus, say, a user-friendly software service) the mechanism to achieve it is quite similar. Particularly, the effectiveness of managers in setting a vision, establishing norms for communication and teamwork, and aligning... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
negative advertising in desperation. The temptation for a candidate trailing in the polls or seeing a lead shrinking is to pull down the opponent rather than develop a positive case for himself or herself. The objective is to raise doubts about the opponent in the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
default for those who don’t make an active choice: pharmacy pick-up without insurance subsidies. Under this program, 42% of eligible employees actively choose home delivery, 39% actively choose pharmacy pickup, and 19% make no active... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
corporations incorporated in a given state—public or private, big or small—are subject to the same statutory framework. State statutes typically specify plurality selection as the default rule for director elections. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne