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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners within business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
operationalization of meaningful economic activity. As a first step to redressing this shift, we offer a definition and operationalization of meaningful action, and we propose a typology of executive behaviors as a foundation for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
sharper national identities. The interwar disintegration of the international economy also led to the national subsidiaries of multinationals taking on strong local identities. Over the past two decades, as the pace of globalization quickened, ambiguities increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 12 (December 2009): 4919- Abstract This paper investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
Placement Students on the Job Market Please note this page will be updated throughout the fall. Accounting & Management Terrence Tianshuo Shi Abstract: Forthcoming Faculty Advisor(s): | Email Elliot Tobin Abstract: The Effects of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-107 IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
accelerate growth. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509049 The Jenner Situation Harvard Business School Case 809-070 Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
first currency restrictions that Argentina had imposed on its citizens. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-064 Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
112-029 Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses have been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
permission to lead. Troy, a customer service manager, endangered his job and his company's reputation by focusing on protecting his position, not helping his team; when a trusted friend advised him to change his behavior, the results were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Silverthorne: Before we talk about your advice, I should note that most of our readers aren’t accounting PhDs. Do you think some of your tips could serve job seekers in other endeavors? Rouen: My first tip... View Details