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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
equity—grew from 8 percent to 66 percent. Almost all of that was due to option programs that made relatively poor use of market information and were poorly designed. The compensation committees rely on consultants to provide market-based data on compensation in View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to publish. The spikes in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
different types of seats are filled) on distributional objectives is comparable to the effect of adjusting reserve sizes. Either lowering the precedence order positions of reserve seats at a school or increasing the number of reserve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
organizations with widespread crime are treated more leniently compared to senior female perpetrators or compared to senior perpetrators in organizations with isolated cases of crime. These results suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
greater in countries with good and already-established public transportation infrastructures as compared with, say, the United States, where most citizens like and need their automobiles? A: Certainly Americans like cars. Although no one... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
approaches for enabling learning and capacity building inside an organization, as compared to evaluative methods that are used after the fact. What Mario and I are concerned about is building up the learning-based approaches that support... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
these reviews was cut. As a consequence, the transfer of tacit (or experiential) knowledge across projects began to suffer. In a transformation effort like FBC, which was based primarily on trial and error learning, problems such as these were to prove costly. By not... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
then link our model to search engine market conditions: we derive comparative statics on consumer choice parameters, presenting relationships between market share, quality, and user welfare. We also analyze the prospect of joining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
relationships to attain the desired outcome. Of comparable importance is an understanding of why the other partner wishes to engage in the collaboration so that the participant can be responsive to those goals and needs. In thinking about... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
more likely to be late-stage startups. The decline in applications hit startups with fewer than 50 employees especially hard. Those companies show a 14 percent drop in applications, compared with a 3 percent drop for firms with more than... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
equity managers from firms overseeing more than $1.9 trillion in assets during July and early August. They found that 92 percent of private-equity managers were interacting with portfolio companies every week during the pandemic, compared... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
punish the person socially, such as by assigning them boring tasks. These results held across age groups and cultures. (One study compared the perceptions of American participants with those of participants from Austria, Germany, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
their next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent for those who previously failed and 22 percent for first-timers. "The size of the effect more than anything was surprising," note HBS professors Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
industry. As more firms go public, an industry is 'put on the map'; analysts begin to track these groups of firms and to compare their values, developing a marketplace for investors which, in turn, spurs the growth of the firms."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
prefer adopting an "agile" methodological approach instead. Compares and contrasts the CMM and agile methodologies, such as Kent Beck's eXtreme Programming. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace