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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
(the NFL semi-final) five times, and competed in the Super Bowl once. Despite Reid’s previous success, the Eagles organization decided to let him go after the team went 12-20 in his last two seasons, and 4-12 in his final season. There were View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a better job measuring, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on bank balance sheets. We examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
33 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared with that of the previous year. Only six venture-backed companies were able to go public last year in the United States. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, 260... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii) increase the number of positions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
exhaustion," as he wrote in June 1937. Early in 1938, he reported to Harold Burbank, chairman of the Economics Department, "I am half dead and certainly entirely dazed from the long hours I must spend on rereading and touching... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
products, opened a new factory, and built up its financial reporting system from scratch. Two years after Darby’s investment, Sirma’s operational performance had improved. However, the company was still suffering from significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
care,” and an MIT lecturer, who wants to test out expedient ways to combine the best aspects of big data and crowdsourcing. They will be reporting their progress for the next several weeks, inviting input from Bernstein, Christensen, HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
alongside the official engine productions. Many craft industries, specifically metal industries, have traditions of homer making. In a recent survey conducted in France, 28 percent of male factory workers reported that on the job they... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
consumers in more-developed markets. There are few government bodies or independent publications, like Consumer Reports in the United States, that provide expert advice on the features and quality of products. Because of a lack of... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
trip there that he wanted to see numbers improve in categories such as guns on the battlefield, attacks against the North, and enemies captured and killed. But the pressure to hit the numbers caused his commanders to report falsely... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171265 When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Under increased pressure to report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
skepticism about how the company would ever sustain charging such low prices, paired with free shipping. That early experiment has proven a huge success, as there are reported to be 40 million current Amazon Prime subscribers. Each... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
researchers found that the participants all rated the monetary value of the product the same—showing they considered the product equally desirable. However, the groups shown the notices reported a lower level of trust, with a rating of 33... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
develop those standards, apply them to every business function, use them to raise the standards of the countries in which they operate, and generate productive innovation and new business opportunities in the process. This continues my interest in innovation on a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
sector of the world economy." Goldberg notes that MBA students who took Agribusiness Management, an elective he taught for decades, often made significant contributions to the body of knowledge in the field. "Working in teams, they wrote research View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
severe ailments, for example). Uniform raw data on health care outcomes needs to be collected. These challenges are not insurmountable, but they would take time and experience to resolve. The SEC successfully addressed similar challenges in creating its View Details