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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from the World Bank's two main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
firms often hunt for target companies they see as undervalued. By cutting costs or reorganizing, the acquirer can improve productivity and position the firm for profitable operations or a future sale. In some quarters, fears persist that... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
spent $83 billion on research and development (R&D) in 2019, according to a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The median cost to develop one drug was $900 million, with half of that amount going... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.” students will evaluate the impact of a new rule related to the fair value accounting as it pertains to Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. Students will debate the topic of relevance and reliability in fair value accounting as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
to huge differences in the cost of living. Corporate culture creates large impact In addition to providing a clearer explanation of pay disparity effects, the study also spotlights the importance of corporate culture in creating value for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
focus away from success equaling economic growth and toward other measures, including the way they value time for individuals. We need to acknowledge the real and significant costs associated with the cultural obsession with financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
Income inequality is on the rise in many countries around the world, according to the United Nations. What’s more, disparities in global income were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some countries facing greater economic losses... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Political science has seen a rise in probability forecasts for geopolitical events, with forecasting competitions and blogs like Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com offering probabilities of election results, outcomes of sporting events,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
activity." Among the 58 percent of influencers in the sample who described themselves as crypto “experts,” “analysts,” or “educators” in their Twitter profiles, the results were more pronounced. The advice of these influencers cost... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Levine-Toffel%20The%20Compass%202014-07-02a_151d5c1a-4fe0-4d2a-90f8-54a82b5bb4a6.pdf October 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—The data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
into the fabric of normal, ongoing organization financial management (it) buys time to figure out what is happening and what it means to the organization.” Jacob Navon suggested, “Perhaps corporate thinking going forward will shift to emphasize resiliency versus View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a cost structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
America. You are a non-person if you don’t. That’s telling 60 percent of kids they are failures.” The numbers, however, tell a different story. Among all American adults, only 34 percent attended a four-year school; among 18-year-olds, that number View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
research company. These businesses were the product of past rational calculations, and some remained profitable and successful operations, but by the 1970s times had changed. Unilever found itself burdened, especially in Europe, with a high View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, internal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
themselves and their investors. There's another surprise in the research: short-termism might not be as widespread as we think, and a substantial number of corporations are rising to the challenge. "One important takeaway is that firms... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/KesslerRoth_OrganDonationAndAllocation.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, L. Pierce, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne