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- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
she and another colleague had notably different approaches to their work. “I was panicking because I thought, ‘Oh no, he can only like one of us! He can only like one of our styles!’” she laughs. “But then I remembered this research and thought, ‘Whew, so maybe he... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
produce benefits, particularly in light of what's going on now in terms of a number of these privatized firms being de-listed? What is the role of institutional reforms in improving information and accountability?" Global Investor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
you’re not able to invest there.” Moonfare’s story offers insights for any company seeking new growth opportunities as its target market matures. While PE returns have outpaced stock market gains in the past, PE fundraising slowed last year as some View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
emissions than traditional vehicles, Asensio will accelerate his research into whether current policies and incentives might leave some communities behind. With the largest database of electric vehicle charging infrastructure performance... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and that's that. Compare your... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
interviewing, vetting, and onboarding candidates, when and how do we collect insight/feedback so we can improve upon our methods? How does an environment become conducive to a range of human experiences in an increasingly complex world?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
nomads, the students had assembled to perform a welcoming ceremony for Van Gerpen and other guests. Among the school’s four grades and seventy children were only a handful of girls, most of them very young. “For Class 3, behind a line of... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
internal competition — trying to look better than other people. All of these forces are extrinsic motivators. They may get people to perform in the short run, but they lead people to feel that they're not doing their work because of their... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and began to focus on quality." AMC's roots date back to 1920, when a... View Details