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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several different enforcement measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
forthcoming Abstract Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
The analysis finds no impact of financial incentives on learning but significant effects of both goal setting and counseling on real financial outcomes. These results identify important complements to financial education that can bridge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in most current sustainability metrics. It is time for these metrics to be expanded to critically assess firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
because of the challenges associated with measuring effectiveness. Notably, these obstacles are not limited to evaluation by external parties, as firm managers also struggle to assess the returns associated with investments in compliance.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
measure average CEO compensation and facilitate discussions in which companies are encouraged to adjust salaries to keep pace with some percentile of the average for all companies. The absence of any dampening mechanism in this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
companies), clients exert a measure of control over the access of those agencies to confidential information while also offering them incentives to avoid conflicts of interest. Findings from the existing body of conceptual and empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
effective, no matter what life stage you’re in. Our goal is to create direct, measureable impacts from our programming, and in these times, we’re moving quickly.” HBS Club of New York Creates Racial Equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to constrain price growth of existing drugs, cap seniors’ out-of-pocket drug spending, and eventually enable drug price negotiations, Dafny says. While “it's a little too soon to forecast the impact of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
of Earnings-per-share Harvard Business School Note 208-059 When discussing the pros and cons of an acquisition, practitioners often talk about the impact of the deal on the buyer's earnings-per-share (eps). An acquisition is said to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
Measuring Impact Harvard’s first Impact Study finds that nearly 40 percent of alumni have launched more than 146,000 for-profit and nonprofit organizations with an estimated... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but beginning with feed-in tariffs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to understand the phenomenon of decentralization. To address the empirical lacuna we have developed a research program to measure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Data for Impact: View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
other words, the more labor treaties a country signs, the more likely it will live up to its promises. Another factor that had a significant effect on factory performance was the degree of freedom of the press in the country. To measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding