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Protect HBS | Information Technology

from multiple locations. Protecting Data at HBS Understand Harvard's Data Security Classifications and the collaboration tools which are appropriate for each level Research... View Details

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

can really impact your performance. But losing those ties, especially ties to the top performing colleagues, can be detrimental to maintaining top performance. Q: How should managers at the firm level... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Filippo Mezzanotti

research interests are broadly focused on corporate finance and political economics. Motivated by my interest in both of these fields, I am currently working on a project with a fellow student that will employ Italian data to understand... View Details

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

03 Apr 2006
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The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

manage their way through this more complicated setting? What kinds of mistakes are firms making? A: There's a remarkable level of heterogeneity out there on how firms are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
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Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow

This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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Digital Operations - Course Catalog

into operational strategy is increasingly critical. Focusing on the operational enablers and implications of digital transformation, this course examines how companies integrate and scale digital technologies in their core operations. This course examines how View Details

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

deeper questions that should be asked of any system of corporate governance: “What’s the central objective? Who are the key players? How is authority allocated? How is accountability ensured? Whatever country a company operates in, it’s important to go to that deeper... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

often very visible decisions. Q: You, your co-authors, and other research partners undertook a survey of 600 corporations in seven countries. Why have corporate headquarters been so under-researched? What particular assumptions were you trying to examine? A: It is hard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice.— Narakesari Narayandas Accomplishing this requires finely tuned approaches that target... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008

firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

she gathered additional data by examining the prospectuses of all public biotech firms over a twenty-year period. The 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives whose career histories she and Gulati... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

August 2012
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership