Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (3,197) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (3,197) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 111 of 3,197 Results →
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

initial pricing of those securities. The pricing of equity is largely determined by the long-term performance of the firm, whereas the pricing of debt is limited on the upside, with investors standing to recapture principal View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

substantial international businesses. This working paper argues that diversified business groups added value in mature markets such as Britain. In the domestic economy, Pearson and Virgin created... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

implicitly follow these two stages. We have categorized these approaches into a 3x3 matrix, which suggests three different approaches for stage-one demand estimation (decision calculus, experiments and econometric methods), View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

remote surveillance of the performance of these products. Predictive analysis applied to humans is now one of the hottest concepts to come along. It is being made possible by a system of customer loyalty... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

building in the National Capital Region. Does this matter? Can the developer realize higher rents because of this? The developer performs a detailed cost-benefit analysis of energy-saving measures that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

and 2007. Their analysis revealed that these organizations face a paradox: Focusing on the social mission is critical to their success in achieving their social mission, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
Related
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

And business schools, with the exception of a few like Harvard Business School, do not ask students to reflect on their values and define who they are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

enable companies to carefully control the compensation of executives and the percentage of that compensation derived from option grants. Fixed value plans are therefore ideal for the many companies that set... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities result from mistaken View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

new organizations? We describe the kinds of answers that an institutional perspective provides to these questions; illustrate some of our arguments by drawing on a recent field of entrepreneurial endeavor; hedge funds; and discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

from any innovative venture must be assessed within the framework of a specific business model, which will specify how revenues will be generated, from whom, and what costs will be incurred in so doing. In other words, technology does not... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given PE firms' focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne