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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Collegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
questions about what model is best suited to the integration of nonfinancial concerns. Does the joint pursuit of commercial and social objectives require new ways of organizing? In this essay we argue that it does. Or at least—to put our thesis in more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
Often overlooked in essays on leadership is the role of the organization's measurement and management system. Effective leaders, however, know that measurement and management systems play a critical role in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
serious implications that go beyond the question of the best approach for leaders. The preference for anecdote over stats can fuel misinformation on issues ranging from climate change to welfare reform, Graeber says. “There is now a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
Pensions Committee, which has a reputation for bipartisan cooperation. Harder’s suggestions to revitalize the system, on the other hand, include “revising arcane procedural rules that give obstructionists too much power to shelve proposals most Americans favor” and... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
complete. The local was never entirely subsumed by the global. Convergence and homogenization were stronger in aspirations than in preferences for particular products and scents, which remained more persistently local despite the spread... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Judging | New Venture Competition
address and can be sustained for a period of time consistent with achieving the desired social impact. (If growing the organization is not the preferred strategy, the program is transferable and replicable.) Concept (35% of score)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses that AIDS has had any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne