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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning some long-held beliefs, and creating its own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
entailed setting up a corporate page on Facebook, getting people to "Like" it, and then broadcasting messages to those fans with the expectation of receiving a response (in the form of either feedback or increased sales). Companies have also undertaken the same set of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
separate chairman can begin to be more active and try to control the CEO.” Q: On another front, when it comes to corporate governance, the pros and cons of separating the roles of chairman and CEO continue to receive attention, most... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
further demonstrate that financing risk has the greatest impact on firms with the most real option value. Hence, the mix of projects funded and type of investors who are active varies with the level of financing risk in the economy. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
understanding and built buy-in for the initiative, but it clearly engaged people emotionally. Now, they had vivid stories to tell and they had personal feelings of disappointment and frustration that they did not want customers to experience. Q: Tell us about the four... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
process of deep restructuring. Traditionally, indexing and active investment were mixed together in products such as mutual funds. The massive growth of cost-efficient indexing, derivative products and technological progress have made it... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
and analysis. Ramana Nanda: One of the debates in the finance literature has been whether finance follows real activity like real investments and companies setting up. Will finance show up where companies need to be? Or does the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
substantially more global. The typical US-based multinational corporation has a much higher percentage of its total activity outside the US today. Early in our work, we'd talk to business executives and they would say, "I can't just... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
qualify, innovations must be deployed actively in at least one setting, and applicants must be able to show credible evidence that the idea is valuable. Otherwise, the sky's the limit. "I really want to emphasize that we want ideas from... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
more Africa-focused content in the future either through fellowships or other offerings? Will HBS play an active role in the country's development? A: We're certainly hoping to move in that direction. We have several recently completed... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
website. If consumers don’t trust the service providers who are active on the platform, they won’t go there and the platform won’t get any revenues. So, a platform’s interests are very aligned with the government goals of protecting... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
activity within the business' accounts which can be valuable in a predictive model. Second, they have a built-in source of small businesses seeking loans. Finally, these banks have their own balance sheets off which to lend and don't have... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
the trick in the story. Once you have buy-in, the audience is much more likely to have a wow experience." Failure Is Part Of The Process Innovations don't appear out of thin air; rather, people need to actively "intend to innovate,"... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Teixeira, which identifies the ingredients necessary to create online videos so compelling that viewers will not only want to watch them but also actively seek them out and share them with friends, family, and coworkers. The research... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
activism and unwillingness to compromise, however, makes him a divisive character among business leaders who share his principles but question the ultimate effectiveness of his approach. Is it in their firms' best interests to support... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of prescriptive advice about the topic to practitioners, and why (despite its recurring nature) that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
extremely talented people who never do anything, really. Find out where your skills and talents lie, and then look for your "creativity intersection" — for those activities where your talents and your strongest intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
Similarly, the fitness studios I frequented often adjusted the class schedules twice a year—almost like two “semesters.” Likewise, the enrichment activities my kids decided to participate in reset each fall. Even the Broadway plays and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne