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  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

the common theory behind improvement thinking, which is that you first go out and find a lot of issues," Tucker says. "You obviously can't address everything, so you pick one or two, fix them, and then explain why you weren't... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

value just doesn’t happen. It’s often the case that hot venture sectors get too much money, that too much money chases too few deals and drives up prices. It’s being driven by the fact that the markets don’t exactly follow the way our View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

identify the critical issues at hand and to articulate a point of view to the management team. In many ways, I am applying the case-reading skills learned at HBS. "I also apply the theories and frameworks of Clay Christensen's BSSE... View Details
  • Web

Charmian Love Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Quantum Theory & the Rise of the B Corporation Charmian Love Kim Coupounas 19 Jul 2018... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1990
  • Article

Troubled Debt Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis of Private Reorganization of Firms in Default

By: S. C. Gilson, J. Kose and L. H. P. Kang
This study investigates the incentives of financially distressed firms to restructure their debt privately rather than through formal bankruptcy. In a sample of 169 financially distressed companies, about half successfully restructure their debt outside of Chapter 11.... View Details
Keywords: Theory; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring
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Diverging Trends in Macro and Micro Volatility

By: Diego Comin and Sunil Mulani
This paper documents the diverging trends in volatility of the growth rate of sales at the aggregate and firm level. We establish that the upward trend in micro volatility is not simply driven by a compositional bias in the sample studied. We argue that this new fact... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Mathematical Methods; Theory; Sales; Growth and Development
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  • June 2008
  • Article

Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods
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  • June 2012
  • Article

Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors

By: Francois Brochet, George Serafeim and Maria Loumioti
The article presents research on executives and corporation investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Business Earnings; Managerial Roles; Investment; Agency Theory; Communication Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • August 2012
  • Article

Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of Team Performance

By: H. K. Gardner, F. Gino and B. Staats
In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform effectively. Yet, many teams fail to do so. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Theory; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Research
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  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder, pressing him to give into his... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full equalization... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Attitudes; Taxation; Theory; United States
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

critiques of our market system, the course dives deep into some of the foundational theories of capitalism (John Locke’s Second Treatise; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto) and the capitalist state (F.A.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

one that has little chance of getting better with the current theories in place,” Martin writes. Clearly, maximizing shareholder value has not worked and needs to be replaced. The problem as Martin sees it is that CEOs game the system to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Books

theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 1998
  • Manual

Instructor's Manual: Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis: Text and Cases

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Finance; Reports; Theory; Cases; Books
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship

SEEDING LEADERSHIP: "If we give the next generation good theories they might provide us with better leadership in the future," Christensen told the crowd. Photo courtesy of University of Oxford HBS professor Clayton Christensen, a former... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Merton Receives Prestigious Award

University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance