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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
fifty, many with fewer than five) in dealing with landlords, grant applications, and city agencies(see sidebar on ReSTART volunteer, Nancy Taubenslag). These volunteer advocates also match businesses with donated goods and services, such... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Kevin J., and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent “Incentive Auction” that reallocated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
destination firm in 10% of our sample, which is significantly higher than in a matched sample. Analyst-manager "co-migration" is significantly stronger when both firms are within the same industry. Analysts who move with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
results of an exercise in which members of Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2009 collectively attempted to replicate Blinder's study. Overall, the MBA students' assessments of offshorability matched Blinder's well. Across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves almost exactly View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
closely matched how a startup is formed, and two, students quickly realized it didn't solve all of their problems. If you are in a team and somebody is not pulling their weight, are you more likely to call them out if you don't know them... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
past decade, Greenwald has also built a business as a matchmaker and dating coach to both sexes and has seen a resulting 750 marriages. Featured widely as a dating expert in the media and as a Huffington Post blogger, she recently won the NBC reality TV show... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak and paperwork View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
with those who allocate resources might affect innovation outcomes and the matching of resources to individuals within a distributed organization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52163 Can CEO Activism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
levels of interest—founders in the early stages, joiners seeking practice in the field, or those debating if the entrepreneurial path is right for them. Teams of three to four students are matched after acceptance into the program, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
matching the entire US division in revenues. “After that I was hit up by Motorola to run their GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] operation in Pakistan, which is where I discovered mobile—and the rest, as they say, is history.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
"Talent and Time" program, which was designed to match employee interests and talents with community needs. And many other Cleveland-headquartered firms have a similar commitment to employee volunteering. Q: Do you think it is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace