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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
emerge over and over: teams become increasingly concerned with the risks of failure rather than the requirements of excellence. As a result, they revert to safe, standard approaches instead of delivering original solutions tailored to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
Standardized metrics of cath lab efficiency are proposed, which can be used in public reports on this topic moving forward. Attention is paid to understanding balance sheets to track the financial health of the cath lab. Specific... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
interest rates than predicted by the standard expectations hypothesis. We find that, since 2000, such high-frequency "excess sensitivity" remains evident in U.S. data and has, if anything, grown stronger. By contrast, the positive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
players tend to offer. The problem is that lending to small businesses falls through the regulatory cracks, specifically on borrower protections. As a case in point, safeguards such as the Truth in Lending Act afford consumers View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
by standard economic models, this paper shows that an additional mechanism is relevant: the use of risk as an excuse not to give. In a laboratory study, participants evaluate risky payoffs for themselves and risky payoffs for a charity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
intermediaries for every intermediated transaction with a buyer, and they must cover those fees by raising prices for consumers." Online travel websites charge the airlines around $3 per flight segment, for example—or a total of $12 for a View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
developing countries, are often meager. Some, like police officers, it can be argued, require additional income just to ensure a basic standard of living. On the supply side, corruption prevails because people find themselves paying... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
salience of one's own ethical standards at the time of temptation (that is, when one faces the decision to cheat) reduces unethical behavior, a conclusion reached through a combination of lab and field studies with Professor Max H.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
deciding if organizations should be required to disclose nonfinancial information. The EC had to determine what types of organizations would be required to disclose, which international framework would serve as a standard reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
operations into four countries, and Digital Chocolate was one of the top developers of soloplayer games for standard mobile phones and iPhones. In 2009, Hawkins was eager for Digital Chocolate to start developing new types of mobile games... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9 percent increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition, certain firms, specifically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match strategic priorities when the need... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
Commission. Those cases, however, often hinge on the question of whether consumers would have bought an item anyway, had they known the supposed original prices were fake—a standard that is hard to prove. Some retailers have successfully... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
weakness?"Source: FredFroese The data included test results for a specific low-skilled job across 15 different companies in a variety of industries. (The researchers agreed to keep the actual job description confidential, but say it is similar in nature to... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation committee that meets perhaps 10 times a year, and what is the likelihood they'll get it right? We say we should pay for performance, but how? What do you think? Original Article Pay for performance sounds right. It aligns managers and investors. It has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
channel); and (iii) individuals who were out of the market when they were excessively angry in the unregulated market, decide to purchase once the firm is regulated, reducing the standard distortions described in the first channel (mixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
play on the standard pre-Internet belief, based on the results of only one research study that became a mantra, that satisfied customers tell five others but dissatisfied customers tell ten. Blackshaw's experience with consumer-generated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
something new to spur on their employees. According to Beer, managers in many companies look to pay-for-performance for good reasons. They expect that it will attract and motivate people. They expect performance standards will outweigh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
aligned and trained to handle crisis communication effectively and manage public relations under pressure. Process: Develop a well-defined communication plan that includes benchmarks and standards for timely and transparent outreach... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
elite educational institutions add to the complexity of Latinx underrepresentation. The inherent vulnerability of those issues makes them difficult to broach in standard admissions events, says Calderon. “We often get the questions about... View Details