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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
consider future implications for their companies...and then decide what action to take." Muller suggests, alternatively, that "traded companies be required—by regulating authorities—to include in their...financial report an...evaluation [of] business View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
your manager's paycheck can motivate you to work harder. Research Papers Research Paper Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of Fund Investment View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
those focused on innovation, and those focused on new venture startup. Since Cantillon's time, many arguments have persisted about the risk-bearing aspect of entrepreneurship. Many studies of entrepreneurs (including autobiographies) tend to focus on foresight and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
assets choose higher leverage. More uniquely, the risk anomaly theory helps to explain why leverage is inversely related to systematic risk, holding constant total risk; why leverage is inversely related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
however, most boards have focused on CEO succession, giving short shrift to systematic leadership development. After all, there was little risk of a calamity occurring if the board didn't monitor the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms that are characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms that are characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and clarity have View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
basis of systematic performance. Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
and Collateralized Lending Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Promising for many types of innovation, as he explains in this Q&A. Key concepts include: Practices in the open source software community offer a model for encouraging large-scale scientific problem solving. Open up your problem to other people in a View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This rejection implies that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
U.S. data. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower systematic risk (beta) and lower idiosyncratic risk. However, over the last 40 years, lower risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
choice, according to a team of behavioral scientists who studied the systematic harm that can result from overeager goal-setting at work. “We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a narrow focus that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals and an evaluator's own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
biting the bullet, and saying we will give these people an opportunity to get rich if they succeed at what it is they are choosing to do. We'll also load them up with the risk that an outside entrepreneur would have." Finding And... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors. Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius