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- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing to pay for (at least in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
model incorporating this idea that predicts that although more ideas will be produced during slack time, they will have higher average complexity and perhaps even higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
their experiences engaging with the health care system. But we are still learning what “good” looks like and we still have a long way to go in understanding which tools work, how well, and for whom. I believe that expansive growth in these new technologies, coupled... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
hell of a good thing," Corzine said. Now that Congress has doubled the SEC's budget under Sarbanes-Oxley, "the SEC can now compete more effectively in the marketplace." Confidence that was lost on all levels during the... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021. Steve Glavesky, The Five View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Investment is "locked in" to profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
and make decisions based on assumptions about the future. The problem: Most of these prophecies about what is to come are basically straight-line extrapolations of a few weeks of data or sermons about what that prophet believes should... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
nurses and other team members). They found that while hierarchy structures were similar across all teams, the level of psychological safety varied dramatically from one team to another—and was directly proportional to the View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
grew. That meant that as more features were added or tweaked, there were more farmers to provide useful feedback from the field. "The more farmers you have, the better data you have," Cook said. Experimentation can be hard for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many View Details