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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical evidence from the United States. It has now been established by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance? In 1993, Lawrence Kahn analyzed... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
created a formal CSO position. Efficiency: Next, companies become more strategic about sustainability by finding ways to achieve efficiencies that will save corporate dollars, such as cutting energy and water use or reducing waste View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
often leading to new patents and companies—and at the same time producing a rich dataset for research. Comparing the list of winners for 100 years with databases of patent data from the British Patent Office, the results were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
occurrence of default. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross Section of Expected Returns Worldwide By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
a lower price but charge more for the cartridges necessary to run a sample and earn its primary revenue from these cartridges. The third model would see GenapSys sell its device at or around cost, but use the data customers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
obvious and most important is the job-creation machine. For decades, America has been unique among large advanced countries in generating large numbers of jobs steadily over time: roughly 2 percent job growth per year [on a rolling... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
ponder how best to utilize data for the purposes of generating "alpha" (positive risk-adjusted returns) in investing. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212057-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
twice"), such as a charitable donation in the recipient's name, have become increasingly popular. Recipients generally enjoy these gifts, which not only benefit others in need but also make recipients feel good about themselves. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
governments all suffered because they had too much leverage. Though the corporate sector has generally decreased leverage, the same is not true of government, particularly in the United States. Every company and household here and abroad... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created brand new ones (just look at the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
not be confined to the pursuit of strong institutions: firms may also seek weak institutions to mitigate hazards. Using panel data from the global smartphone industry and recent patent wars among key industry rivals, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world? View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
influence facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an original survey and archival View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
underpinning Web 2.0 technologies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509035 PublicationsChinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases Authors:F. Warren... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
likely to hold back ideas, concerns, and questions to maintain a positive image, the team says. Once psychological safety is lost, it’s hard to get back. Newcomers’ loss of psychological safety was followed by a long period of small gains, which the View Details