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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

findings that have implications for theory and practice, and that suggest new directions for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-093.pdf Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Strategy, among other works, and his latest book, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms, will be published this year by Harvard University Press. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Financial... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

point that exploration is stifled and inertia sets in. We suggest that mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. Departing from this work, in this paper we focus on the strategic compensation of non-executive employees and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other state actors, such as government ministries and government agencies that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance of our estimates. We were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The Road to Impact

if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at New York Public Library, he put... View Details
  • January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

Sustainability through Partnering: Conceptualizing Partnerships between Businesses and NGOs Author:James E. Austin Publication:Chap. 3 in Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on Theory and Practice.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

with the greatest increases occurring when many of these directors leave. While agency theory highlights the importance of the right incentives being in place, this research suggests that this can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As a forecaster, he was best known for advising investors in the month prior to October 1929 that a "crash" was coming that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

impairment rules to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these hypotheses in a sample... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

SOMNCs extends the SOE literature, and the non-business internationalization argument, which helps explain how the SOE dimension of SOMNCs extends the MNC literature. Second, we analyze how the study of SOMNCs can help develop new insights of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne