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- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
with a PhD after completing my masters at the London School of Economics. From London, I moved to New York and worked in consulting at Deloitte, and then to San Francisco to join a mid-market private equity firm, Kingfish Group. I’ve always enjoyed the duality of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog
to a real-world public-market investment setting. Students will partner with an investment firm to work directly and deeply on an investment theme or question. In conjunction with their sponsor, students will develop a process and plan... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
with serious consequences to firms and society in general. Annemarie Scholberlev quoted John Kenneth Galbraith, who reminded us of a cause of poor predictions when he said " those employed or self-employed who tell of the future do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
her course for Harvard MBA students, Managing Service Operations, which explores interactions between firms and customers. Defy Conventional Wisdom Commerce Bank entered a mature industry where the overall View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
balance. While it's critical to love and enjoy the work, you also have to consider your level of skill and the prospects for continuous improvement, how the work is valued by society, and the daily rhythm that the job creates. After about... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
data on loans to individuals and firms across the entire country by banks also across the entire country. So, they have information on the recipient of the loan, the amount, the location where that loan was... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
nurses and other team members). They found that while hierarchy structures were similar across all teams, the level of psychological safety varied dramatically from one team to another—and was directly proportional to the View Details
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Andres Sarmiento
with. How has Harvard Business School prepared you for your current role & your long term career? My product management role at Amazon required a diverse skillset. On one hand I had to understand technology and data to figure out how... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
project, starting with the data generation. "She managed to convince people to tell her how they were doing every day," said Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Amabile explained the importance of approaching field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021. Steve Glavesky, The Five View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett