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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

which is hard to explain by the traditional leverage tradeoff with financial distress that emphasizes downside risk. The results are robust to a variety of specification choices and control variables. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the incentive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

also apparent using only portfolio investment responses to within-country corporate tax rate changes in a panel from 1994 to 2005. Investors appear to alter their portfolio choices to circumvent home and host country institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

successful that the business has real problems. In sustaining-success situations, new leaders have to win the confidence of the organization so that they are trusted to make tough choices about where the business should go. In both cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • December 2004 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Esrey & LeMay Sprint Options, The

By: Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall
Sprint's outside auditor simultaneously provided tax advice--including the recommendation of tax shelters related to Sprint options--to senior Sprint officers. These tax structures were called into question amid circumstances that raise a variety of conflicting issues... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Conflict of Interests; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Telecommunications Industry
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  • March 2008 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Lisa Sherman (A)

By: Bill George and Jens Audenaert
Lisa Sherman is a successful executive at Verizon who is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After attending a diversity training workshop in which participants expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, Sherman wonders... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Organizational Culture
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  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

nutrition, health, and wellness (NHW) company in the world. Over the next 13 years, the NHW strategy guided strategic decisions and choices at Nestlé including merger and acquisition choices, strategies for improving products, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Chapter

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details
Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics
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  • 03 Nov 2011
  • What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

determine the behavior of management or does the behavior of management determine our value system? (from Athan Sunderland), "Is (our) organization a place where balanced risks can be taken without causing too much career... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

2016 Harvard Business Review Press HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company By: Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff Abstract—Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • March 2015
  • Case

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) (Abridged)

By: Boris Groysberg and James Weber
Tracks the first six months of a recent MBA grad, Tim Keller, at Katzenbach Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Relations; Organization Behavior; Superior ＆ Subordinate; Managing Projects; Informal Organization; Consulting; Professional Services; Leadership; Work-Life Balance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Rank and Position; Product Development; Service Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

her post-conflict Afghanistan. Nawabi had lived in exile in Europe for three decades and had a successful career in fashion. Explores the challenges facing Nawabi on her return to her native Afghanistan—as a woman pursuing an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

organize our data and translate it into something actionable. We're still at the stage where we're building infrastructure for it and, unfortunately, too often it's garbage in, garbage out." Lahkani asked panelists where they believe the best opportunities lie for... View Details
Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum

By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That same year, Christine L. Exley and Elena Battles launched a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 2012
  • Article

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
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  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed among the customer base,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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