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- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
reporting on how it is allocating its residual cash flow among its stockholders and its other stakeholders." Others were less enthusiastic about the notion. "A compliance officer will not be a panacea," said Nigel.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm entry rates.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library
are safe, fearless and empowered to win with unbridled ideas. It is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas—it also increased the popularity of the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
increase air flow and quality can have dramatic effects on workers. Click HereJohn Macomber and Joseph Allen at a recent Books@Baker event. But the economic benefits don’t stop there. Macomber expects that a growing public focus on health... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
explained, humans across cultures share predilections ranging from choices of habitation sites to preferred colors and visual forms. "In twenty or thirty years," Wilson said, "our knowledge of human nature will make today's View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
by $2.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. By either measure, cash flows received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
sponsored buyouts are typically more informed, more hands-on, and more interventionist than public company boards. There are several reasons for this: Private-equity boards typically have the advantage of in-depth due diligence that precedes a buyout, and they use this... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The memory gap leads to an empathy... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Part II Analysis of Valuation Featured Exercises Conduct valuation exercises using different methods, including abnormal earnings and discounted cash flow Use estimated valuation to determine an optimal investment strategy 6-8 hrs Module... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
one’s own knowledge attenuated reliance on algorithms. These tests are important because participants can improve their accuracy by relying more on algorithms (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 tested a mechanism for reliance:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
are the best-positioned market sectors and stocks as well as those to avoid. Hot Stocks provides a roadmap detailing how to invest in this new reality, and evaluates the many ways global warming will affect profit flows in the economy.... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
could yield outsized returns for a professional investor. The countless examples of talented individuals ebbing and flowing into either role at different times (operator one day, investor the next) reinforced this insight. I knew that if... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
employers. As we approached the end of the 20th century we began to question whether the course content was right for the new millennium. Were we developing the kind of leaders needed for our increasingly dynamic global knowledge economy?... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
figured out the business model, bringing the operation to scale is a necessity for their own bottom line. Investments will flow automatically without many gut-wrenching debates on theories of economic development and so on. That is the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
highly infectious virus, also known as COVID-19. Without incoming cash, many small businesses—especially restaurants and shops on American Main Streets—will soon need to cut staff or shut down for good. “To many of these small businesses, daily cash View Details