Firm Level Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

comparatively straightforward corporate bonds by citing 10-year historical data from Fitch on their default probability. Within the 10 investment grade rating categories of AAA to BBB-, the annualized default rate only varies between .02... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

from (HBS professor emeritus) Tom McCraw's Creating Modern Capitalism book, wherein Henry Royce is talking about a decision whether to merge Rolls-Royce with Vickers, but "was determined to keep the firm independent." "From... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

affiliate quality, GAN was impressive, and GAN's high standards show clearly in our large-sample data." Setting The Rules Given the potential problems with affiliate marketing, would firms be better advised to ignore them all together?... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

ideas and innovation can come from outside sources, and often they’re cheaper, faster, and better. "That’s the new thing that’s happening, this rise of open communities to create products" In many ways, it levels the playing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

analyzed the data (at the level of the respondent, the unit, or the hospital), where a higher percentage of the problems were assigned to a senior leader for action, there was a greater improvement in safety... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Oral history also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written documents exist and are accessible in corporate and governmental archives. Oral histories can provide insights into why... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

where the independent directors based their assessments of him on direct, private conversations with company executives at multiple levels of management. (He detailed the process in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "Evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

rules of the game? Companies like to know what the rules are and they like stability in those rules. I believe that businesses will welcome a higher level of certainty and predictability that I expect will come with the new... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

where you stand. You also need to prevent competitors from imitating your methods. A second strategy is to up the ante on a competitive level within your industry by raising your own costs in order to provide an environmental good, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind down a financial View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

question at an individual household level—not to mention at the level of boards of directors, CEOs, regulatory agencies, and politicians—is will we, and they, pick up the gauntlet of responsibility for our collective economy? What the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

businesspeople as well as to legislators,” Sawyer says. “They were looking for profit-sharing plans that would enable even less efficient firms to weather the downturn.” In 1933, California approved two additional laws to strengthen fair... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that encourages cooperation. "The tight... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details