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- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how change View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Authors:Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy Publication:5th ed. Cengage Learning, forthcoming An abstract is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
would be kept confidential. “We are sworn to secrecy,” she says. “Many of these firms are very curious [about the findings]. Private equity firms are quite interested, but there is especially huge interest among limited partners who have a choice about whether to...
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- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current...
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by Jim Heskett
- 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
their ascent against the odds: serendipity, competence, social ties, maneuvers, and aggressive action. We demonstrate the role that social class origins play in shaping the career narratives of these high achieving women. Women from lower social class backgrounds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
poorest agents, and non-financial rewards are more effective when the peer group is larger. Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to...
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- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
agents optimize. But providing agents with information about the benefits of an action often fails to encourage that action. This paper proposes a far-reaching behavioral explanation: information may make...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to...
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- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
(benefits) for firms with weak (strong) nonfinancial performance and disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54302 Government Incentives and Financial Intermediaries: The Case of Chinese Sell-Side...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
Kotsantonis, Sakis, Christopher Pinney, and George Serafeim Abstract—The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting a number of other widespread...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,...
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Martha Lagace