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  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

to write and teach in a way that helps people develop an intuition for looking into the future clearly. If you only look into it through the lenses of the past, it's very hard. I have a theory of why we've had this spate of horrible... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Attributing moral agency to business enterprises may be thought to avoid this controversy given that most theories of morality recognize positive duties on the part of all moral agents to help others even if at some cost to their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2022
  • Background Note

Residual Income Valuation Model

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Albert Shin
This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the... View Details
Keywords: Residual Income Valuation; Valuation; Research; Theory; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Financial Management; Business Strategy
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  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun theories to explain the puzzle and... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
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Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available

By: Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where a long-run player is allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a long-lived player... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Interests; Power and Influence; Reputation
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

inventors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-042.pdf Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT Authors:Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol, and Maria Chiarvesio Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on average there is a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between headquarters and affiliates,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

for Understanding and Applying the Science of Decision Making By: Hamilton, Ryan, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—Scientists have spent decades creating powerful and detailed descriptions of how people make decisions. Unfortunately, many of these View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

the International Economy, edited by Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons, 227-239. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010 Purchase the book: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5625 Government and Markets: Toward a New View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

some people's inputs count more than their actual knowledge warrants, to the detriment of the project. The problem is common—and avoidable, says HBS professor Heidi K. Gardner, who has developed and tested a theory of pressure on teams... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

the United States to take advantage of that incentive. This really woke people up about the importance of these rules. Q: So, what is the right way to tax global corporations on their overseas profits? A: Fortunately, economic theory can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

devoted to underlying theories or principles, since in business "practices and precedents have no weight of authority." The particulars of each business situation were paramount; they had to be understood and analyzed in detail.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin

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