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    How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?

    Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
    • 10 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 10

      Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 26

      Publications August 2013 Journal of Corporate Finance Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders By: Bebchuk, Lucian A., Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from investors and public officials... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

    Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health
    • 20 Nov 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

    Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, William Easterly & Erick Gong; Technology
    • 10 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    El Dorado Lost: Local Elites, Real Estate and the Education Business in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolving, complex and multifaceted relationship between the real estate industry and the education sector in China. The current crises in the private education and real estate sectors caused by policy shifts reflect the inter-meshing of... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Policy; Government and Politics; Economic Sectors; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • September–October 2017
    • Article

    Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers

    By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
    A small number of digital superpowers—Alibaba, Amazon, Microsoft, and others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Strategic Planning; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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    The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his... View Details
    Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft; Society; Economics
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    • 2003
    • Book

    Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines

    By: H. David Sherman, S. David Young and Harris Collingwood
    Profits You Can Trust gives managers, directors, lenders, audit partners and analysts a clear framework to demystify global financial reporting in a market fraught with danger. Filled with provocative and enlightening examples, it offers a fresh perspective and clear... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Finance; Economics; Financial Reporting
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    • November 2015
    • Article

    Why Organizations Don't Learn: Our Traditional Obsessions—Success, Taking Action, Fitting In, and Relying on Experts—Undermine Continuous Improvement

    By: F. Gino and B. Staats
    For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and improvement are key—but not always easy to achieve. After a decade of research, the authors have concluded that four biases stand in the way: we focus too heavily on success, are too quick to act, try too... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Learning
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    Meaning and Momentum in the Integrated Reporting Movement

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot
    In this summary of their recently published book, the authors provide an update of the state of the integrated reporting (or ) movement, whose aim is to persuade companies to provide fuller disclosure of material nonfinancial (or "ESG") factors and how they are... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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    • October 2009
    • Article

    Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

    By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
    People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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    • 2006
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms? Evidence from US Banks' Control over Firms' Voting Rights

    By: Joao A.C. Santos and Kristin Wilson
    In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control over their borrowers by investigating the loan pricing effect of banks' voting stakes in borrowers. We exploit the fact that banks may hold shares of firms in a fiduciary capacity to identify a clean... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 25 Feb 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Michel Pham, Columbia University

      Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

      Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

      • 18 Apr 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas, April 18

      March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 15 Mar 2016
      • First Look

      March 15, 2016

      forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods,... View Details
      • 14 Mar 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

      Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz
      • 04 Dec 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: December 4

        PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel