Confirmation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

calming. And it is healing: the Mayo Clinic urges us to "intentionally set a goal to be kinder to others. Express sincerely felt kindness to a co-worker." Science has confirmed what we observe in our daily interactions. According to the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

By: Laura Alfaro

The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts that in the fast-food drive-thru industry, customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2021
Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value

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12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

told by one group, but also going back and having confirmative conversations with others. Others will go a few layers below the senior management team and engage middle-management, who are often willing to be absolutely candid and have a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

McCool opened his remarks by confirming people's fears that the first quarter results had fallen far below plan. But he continued in an unexpected way: From what I can see, we had a good quarter even though financial results were... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

28 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

October 2007
Article

The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

By: Michael D. Kimbrough

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details

Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital

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13 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

School professor Amit Goldenberg and colleagues Nathan Young and Andrea Bellovary of DePaul University analyzed 140,358 tweets posted by 44 news agencies in early 2020. An automated sentiment analysis tool confirmed their hunch:... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

low, it will be more difficult to implement anything-policies, practices, and eventually strategies of which they are a part? This appeared to be confirmed by data that I collected for my most recent book. For example, only 30 percent to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

research confirms observations that women start more companies than men, but rarely grow them as large. Based on his earlier research, these results also resonated with Tim Butler: “When it comes to self-rating on finance skills, women... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

softer, characteristics you seek in this person. If you already have someone in mind, try to stay objective and not write this JD to ensure they can fill the role (an act of confirmation bias). Use this as your guide as you meet... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

already confirmed its name. "Windows 7 brought us back to the notion of sequential indicators," Ofek says. "Microsoft learned that when you break from sequential names, people often overemphasize the risk of significant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

percent between 1990 and 2000. (We confirmed our findings in the five years following the study period.) Both companies' performance was directly linked to whether or not they adhered to the 4+2 formula. In the strategy practice, for... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

to find out if your changes are working.” Believing in the process In the book, Beer describes how the carefully designed strategic fitness process has helped companies bring their problems into the light. It has been applied by numerous CEOs, and research has View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

it. Q: You mention Scott Cook. He once told me that on his first day as cofounder of his new two-person company, Intuit, he started by writing an employee handbook. Your work would seem to confirm the rightness of that decision, that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

it” "In the mind of someone who thinks of tipping as something that implies better future service, tipping and bribery are closer together," Torfason says. The researchers confirmed this intuition in a lab experiment. They... View Details