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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
on a variety of social and environmental issues, and the companies receiving investments were involved in businesses as diverse as clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, educational toys, and innovative hearing aids. Our...
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by Manda Salls
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
nature" and "an intensely human soul that champions dignity and freedom of spirit," Arjun Balakrishnan also pointed out the need for someone with "a solid grasp of big-picture forces ... the ability to understand gender (and) generational View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
evidence that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who exhibit little skill in evaluating the firm itself, other firms within the firm's industry, or even other firms in general. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0% of appointed View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell phone business. (Nokia...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters-a necessary condition for success if there is an acceptable deal at the next stage. To sway skeptics, I recommend a specific...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
find no evidence that directors lose seats on other boards, a proxy for reputational consequences, as a result of shareholder activism. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46376 The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208029 Chile: The Conundrum of Inequality Harvard Business School Case 907-411 Following the violent overthrow of the Allende regime, Chile embarked on economic reforms that emphasized free markets as View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
explore the effect of adding a functional alibi in a variety of marketing contexts, and we examine various consumer populations representing diverse demographics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51829 Fall...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard methodology of asking sensitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen with income inequality, and commodity taxes are more uniform and are typically assessed on final...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
insufficient) risk, forgo profitable projects, and ignore the cost of capital. We describe the causes of the problems associated with widely prevalent executive bonus plans and offer our recommendations for fixing them. We focus on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract The workhorse model of optimal taxation strongly recommends tagging, but its use in policy is limited. I argue that this puzzle is a symptom of a more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services sector and other settings, such as appliance manufacturing, oil and gas, health care, and education. The article proposes strategies on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
wholly owned enterprise. Hesse must prepare his recommendation to the management team, which includes owners Jim and Debby Sharpe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807118 ...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
high-potential, next-generation senior managers energized and growing? The answers can help the board realize whether a company with great financial results today may have terrible results in six months, six quarters, or six years—unless there's an intervention....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
and other top executives representing fields as diverse as telecommunications, financial services, and pharmaceuticals, as well as government entities in the US and overseas-debated the pluses and minuses of Data.gov's decisions, its...
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- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
profusion of diverse topics into a single work, all in service to an untenable thesis. Schumpeter had grown up reading ponderous German treatises containing sentences hundreds of words long, and his verbosity in Business Cycles contrasts...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using...
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Martha Lagace