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- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
gatherers, they didn’t have private property. If you were moving every day, you couldn’t have a lot of things. But once you start to farm, you need things like tools and seeds and land, and you need to have some sense of ownership around them. You also need a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
grants, and a greater chance of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for the magnitude of the earnings surprise, operating and stock return performance, and are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2015 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after a period of time away. Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of Asset Management, and her team had to evaluate whether or not... View Details
Keywords: Women; Training; Leadership; Motherhood; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; Gender; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Programs; Financial Services Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool." Harvard Business School Case 415-066, March 2015. (Revised May 2018.)
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
though one is leading a meaningful life is a bellwether for broader emotional wellbeing, with those who feel they are leading meaningful lives displaying superior mental and physical health. Making work meaningful can also be key for companies looking to retain... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
(forthcoming) Abstract Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation
By: Matthias Regier and Ethan Rouen
We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between lagged... View Details
Regier, Matthias, and Ethan Rouen. "The Stock Market Value of Human Capital Creation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-047, October 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2023
- Article
The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation
By: Ethan Rouen and Matthias Regier
We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between... View Details
Rouen, Ethan, and Matthias Regier. "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation." Art. 102384. Journal of Corporate Finance 79 (April 2023).
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
adopting expansive body postures increases psychological power, we hypothesized that working on larger devices, which forces people to physically expand, causes users to behave more assertively. Participants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
which international, domestic, civil society, and market institutions promote supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
showed that participants were turned off by overhead. The higher the level of overhead associated with a donation to charity: water, the lower the percentage of participants who chose to donate to it. When... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
helped Bangladesh become the world's second largest clothing exporter. Rana Plaza was not the first tragedy to occur in Bangladesh's garment industry, and without intervention, more might follow. International brand owners, domestic and foreign governments, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
minutes—during the pandemic’s early weeks. Employees also participated in more meetings, though for less time than they did before COVID-19 sent many workers home. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
says. In fact, many traditional surveys often don’t reach enough respondents who identify as non-binary to create a meaningful sample. The research team used the platform Prolific, which specifically allowed them to recruit participants... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
bondholders who participate and penalize those who do not—all the while complying with securities laws that require equal treatment of creditors holding identical claims. This was the situation facing the Loewen Group Inc. as it stood at... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were shown a stressful film and were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
While that may sound obvious at face value, it's something that regularly stymies the veteran leaders in Montgomery's executive classes. "We'll be talking about Nike or Apple, and the participants will be praising the authenticity of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
Hagerty and Barasz note in the study. As one example, they point to an article in the satire publication The Onion headlined, "Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn't Be In Poor People's Grocery Carts." What is permissible? In one experiment, View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed over time. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese business and as a means to consider the bigger picture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace