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  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment effects and competitor spillovers.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

model incorporating this idea that predicts that although more ideas will be produced during slack time, they will have higher average complexity and perhaps even higher average value. Using data on 165,410 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do

By: Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower
Unlike most historical accounts of strategic change inside large firms, empirical research on strategic management rarely uses the day-to-day behaviors of top executives as the unit of analysis. By examining the resource allocation process closely, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure
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  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through foreign direct investment: FDI). Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53894 forthcoming Human Resource Management Review Developing Strategic Human Resource Theory and Making a Difference: An Action... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

understand what factors make scientists more willing to take those risks and what could be done to identify and support them. Overall, the study seeks to acknowledge that “we need to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

(A) A year after Norwegian grocery chain REMA 1000 adopted Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise social network, Chief Human Resource Officer Tore Høylie is asked to evaluate its impact on company culture View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 1988 (Revised February 1992)
  • Case

Norton Group PLC: To Be or Not to Be in the Motorcycle Business (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jon Skofic
Norton, a once famous motorcycle manufacturer, soundly beaten by Japanese competition, turns its attention to developing rotary engines. The company is acquired by Norton Group PLC, which is headed by a dashing entrepreneur. The new management must decide what... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Production; Competition; Auto Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Japan; United Kingdom
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  • October 1987 (Revised January 1989)
  • Background Note

Purchasing a Business: The Search Process

Describes the steps necessary to purchase a small to medium size company. Provides an eight-part analytical framework. Issues covered in the framework include the following: the self-assessment, deal criteria, deal sources, resources necessary to purchase a business,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Framework; Resource Allocation; Negotiation Deal; Business Processes; Valuation
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  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Matching Markets for Googlers

By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Natalia Rigol
My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance... View Details
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

attempt was made to justify the investment for automakers on economic grounds. The projected return on the investment to serve Detroit was 6.5 percent, which fell below the investment hurdle rate of 8 to 10 percent used to View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

more holistic view regarding financial, natural, and human resource allocation decisions, and the interdependencies between them. It also means... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

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