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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
guarding it accordingly." Others agreed, but suggested that Section 404 could serve a useful purpose. Mike Flanagan commented that "Section 404 is a good first step ... (but) ... does fall short... If ethics and professionalism... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along with many others, I had assumed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
ahead of him—in a recent election, he almost beat a heavily entrenched incumbent. Tony is a veteran, with a Silver Star for bravery in Korea, and an entrepreneur. With his good friend Max, another attorney, he has started a law firm and... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
found that these investors were largely apathetic about the gender politics of Japanese corporations—yet this overestimation of Western progressiveness has led to tangible progress in Japan, as firms begin hiring and promoting more female... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
between two competing investments, which differ in size, maturity, and rate of return. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207066 Lean at Wipro Technologies Harvard Business School Case 607-032 Wipro Technologies, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Underhill. "If I go to a Web site that's hard to read because it's got funky type face, and I can't get service when I call, well, that's a problem." And many stores post signs with print far too small for many of their... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
heavily on the sustainability of everything from energy sources to low-cost sources of products and services to security, it is not particularly surprising that for some of the most interesting thinking concerning sustainability we might... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and in older and more successful firms where employees make important decisions and the manager has strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
the horizontal model, smaller competitors are sustaining themselves on discrete pieces of the business. RAMBUS offers the core technology, NVidia specializes in design, and TSMC offers fabrication services. "The key strategic question is where to play in the value... View Details