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- 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
- 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
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- First Look
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
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
initial evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and well-being, these data offer one potential path to sustainable happiness: prosocial spending increases happiness, which in turn encourages prosocial spending.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
level data set of 29 countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption By: Christensen,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
the world stage. It is a story that holds many important lessons for the current generation of emerging giants seeking to do the same. Book: http://hbr.org/2011/07/the-globe-the-paradox-of-samsungs-rise/ar/1 Working PapersBig BRICs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
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
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
gas flow into the can and explode. (While all of the data that I am using about the Walmart stories are from publicly available sources, it should be noted that I served as an expert witness in the case of Melvin v. Walmart, Inc.) This... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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