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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- Article
The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings
By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers
In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public
Brav, Alon, and Paul A. Gompers. "The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings." Review of Financial Studies 16, no. 1 (Spring 2003).
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L. Bower have explored at length... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
the site (They receive this status from Yelp based on their compliments sent to other Yelpers, whether they vote for reviews that are Useful, Funny, and Cool, and if they consistently post respectful View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
marketing profile and putting measures in place to distinguish BrightStar’s services as higher quality than those of its competitors. A shifting regulatory landscape and labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
interpersonal disclosure of intimate information increases attraction, cost transparency by a firm increases brand attraction, in turn boosting consumer purchase interest. This relationship persists even after controlling for perceptions of price fairness View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
listen, it wouldn't be as efficient as just solving the problem now and then discussing it later. Because there is so much variation, we need to fix first, explain later." Said another worker: "Everyone is happy: Management sees... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
effective and hazardous pesticides. Treated farmers also sow a significantly larger quantity of cumin, a lucrative but risky crop. Interestingly, use of the service is increasing in the level of farmer... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
potential market, with new technology, and with a very different kind of market—processed foods—he built a brand on a different set of benefits, and with different sources of differentiation. The rotunda at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 1992 (Revised April 1995)
- Teaching Note
BMW: The 7-Series Project (A), Teaching Note
By: Gary P. Pisano
Teaching Note for (9-692-083). View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
coverage, and there were rising price pressures from commercial insurers, employers, and individual consumers. Dr. Jeffrey Balser, CEO of VUMC, had to address the shortfall while maintaining the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
Improve an Organization’s Culture? Here’s a succinct response from Juan E. Gomez Inciso reflecting many of the responses to the question: “It takes what it takes, given the circumstances and people involved,” especially View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
essentially enumerating the qualities that we should look for in a leader without suggesting how we identify and select for them. Some of the more interesting ones included Kapil Kumar Sopory's suggestion... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
valuable asset. However, the company is now at a crossroads. It has grown so big and so popular that it must consider monetizing certain aspects of its business to ensure sustained quality View Details