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opportunities through the Leadership Fellows Program . She was familiar with Acumen through her work at M-KOPA (in which the firm was an early investor), and recognized that the program “would allow me to enter the social space at a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the ecosystem in place to improve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
and subsequent performance within the firm. Using unique personnel data for entry level undergraduates and leveraging the fact that the assignment of an employee to one of many technology centers within the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
interactions between sell-side analysts and managers at the firms they cover. Thus, the effectiveness of recent SEC and exchange regulations appears to have impacted the observed level of optimism. To the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
workers. Immigrants who come to the country on H-1B visas are very dependent upon the firms that hire them, a situation that critics contend leads some companies to view the program as a source of cheap labor. Kerr is testing this theory... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
our propositions using empirical data from a large pharmaceutical firm encompassing 407 architectural components and 1,157 dependencies between them. We show that different components occupy different... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
association between different kinds of firm interlocks, control groups, and synchronicity in Chile. A unique data set containing equity cross holdings, common individual owners, and director interlocks is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
WASSERMAN: Shining the light of data on entrepreneurial ventures in order to chart the terrain founders will face when they set out to pursue their dreams. Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
Sanskrit to the uninitiated, and the conversation it sparks is equally impenetrable. “Could the claustrum be represented by the ‘where’ region?” “Does orientation get anchored like grid cells?” “Is there any physiological data that tells... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
Firm Dynamics Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
the initial results of the study in a new working paper, Management Practices across Firms and Countries,—also coauthored by Christos Genakos of the Athens University of Economics and Business—and have posted a comprehensive collection of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that abstract from heterogeneity at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006
this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne