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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. Of course, when both... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addressing fundamentals. But the time is coming when such upgrades will be unavoidable. Usually when a resource becomes scarce, its price increases. But that hasn't happened here because IP addresses are provided at de minimis cost—a regulatory View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
decisions and structure. Was this typical of an investment in China or did Bain Capital just find itself in a unique situation? What can future managers learn from this situation about corporate governance and ethical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
sets out to follow. An emergent strategy involves the decision to follow a new path when opportunity knocks unexpectedly, or when an unexpected roadblock arises. In work and in life, the question is always which path to take. To help... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
decision, but to guide and mentor the team through the decision process. You may interview candidates at this stage, too, but I suggest this be to help a junior manager resolve concerns they have about the candidate or probe more deeply... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have declined,” conclude the authors of a new research paper. “Our study asks why.” The number of lawsuits specifically about Rule 10b-5, the antifraud regulation created under... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
just maintaining their capital ratios. Third, the best way to deal with the inevitable gaming of any set of ex ante capital rules is not to propose further rules, but rather to allow the regulator sufficient flexibility to address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
[by the disputing parties] tend to be more industry friendly. This also incents arbitrators to slant their decisions in favor of the industry to increase their chance of being selected in the future.” Building on his 2018 research of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
calculations—are powerful. Even though algorithms often outperform human judgment, people resist allowing a numerical formula to make decisions for them (Dawes, 1979). Nevertheless, people increasingly depend on algorithms to inform their... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, I examine the sensitivity of promotion and demotion decisions for lower-level managers to financial and nonfinancial measures of their performance and investigate the extent to which the behavior of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
investments across various countries. Q: You mentioned that you can't predict exchange rates. But are there rules of thumb managers can practice when thinking about exchange rates and how to play them? A: I'll mention several. First, as I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The dot-com boom of the 1990s had changed the rules of business forever, it seemed; all you needed was a sexy IPO, cold nerve, and the magic carpet of momentum trading. But even as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were dismissing... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
customer purchasing decisions based on layouts that change from store to store. “It’s around us now, and it’s growing.” "If something is very novel, there is little data around it to use." Thomke first explored the phenomenon in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods to combine forecasts, there... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
appears afterward. Martha Lagace: It's a clever idea to tell your story through the fictional character of Jim Barton, a fledgling CIO. Why describe CIO challenges through fiction? Rob Austin, Dick Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Our View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace