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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into the transformative potential... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Conservative? Towards a Theory of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail McIntosh Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the role of standard setters in a standard setting. In particular, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
birds. But developing feather-covered wings didn't get the job done. Rather, it was understanding the circumstances of what made flight possible, starting with Bernoulli's theory of lift, that led to experimentation and ultimately manned... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
discuss how they define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed, theories they have proposed, and they provide a description of their research including the most interesting empirical results it has produced. The chapters... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
expect others to do more than we do to solve energy problems. We then propose ways in which these biases could actually be used to our advantage in steering ourselves toward better judgment. Finally, we outline the key questions on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
challenges, few BOP ventures can be expected to reach scale at the pace seen in their mainstream counterparts. Indeed, those BOP ventures that do quickly reach scale often credit some of their success to support from governments,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
and discrepancies can emerge as a result. Effective Auditing for Corporates provides you with proactive advice to help you safeguard core value within a corporation and to ensure that auditing processes and key personnel meet the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
free riding. Using the principles of Ostrom's commons theory, we show that the design commons organization was robust, although it displayed some areas of fragility. We conclude with the rudiments of a contingency theory describing when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
product reviews, and safety ratings, all moving me forward toward a purchase decision. In short, market categories help establish expectations about products and hence facilitate exchange between buyers and sellers. But how do they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized contributions. Trouble arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance of our estimates. We were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing, and living their lives. As psychological View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about when and why companies merge or acquire other firms—and how... View Details