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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in founder-director firms is higher and the level of pay is lower than that of other CEOs. CEO turnover sensitivity to firm performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract The article reports on a study concerning team building and the fit or interpersonal congruence among team members. The study found that the performance of diverse teams improves when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Consistent with Temporal Construal Theory, we find that future-implemented choices are construed at a higher level than immediately-implemented choice, and that this construal difference mediates the increased support for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
all over the world can come and fully thrive," he added. "In my own personal experience," he continued, "that is what the School has been to me. So it troubles me deeply that this School is experienced by some as not providing a View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
are bound to ask which data is on the site and which is not. "We release data on toxicity, but not on national security and privacy. It would be a mistake, for instance, to release zip-code level data about health care" because... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
More importantly, when the CEOs were asked "What's your past level of success in managing significant change?" only 15 percent said they had been "very successful." Another 15 percent said they had had "little or... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Germany in 2000, the labor costs were about 25-26 Euros per hour. In the Czech Republic it's about four Euros per hour. So it's quite dramatic. But how you assess these costs depends on productivity levels as well. And German firms are... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
contributing. Probably a greater ability is to deliver materials that can be experienced at different levels. In other words, going back to the gap between novice and master to allow people to find their own place on that continuum and start to absorb the materials at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
restaurants for a three-month period, with randomization done at the restaurant level to assess the overall impact of advertisements. We find that advertising increases a restaurant’s Yelp page views by 25% on average. Advertising also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
the founder is still in control of the board of directors and/or the CEO position are significantly less valuable than those in which the founder has given up control. On average, each additional level of founder control (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
an unanswered question as to what extent the important attributes of performance are a part of the firm's organizational capital or embodied in the human capital of the people inside the firm. We examine the performance at the partner-investment View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
industry. Analysis of our data broadly supports our hypotheses. High levels of preexisting interorganizational trust increased the probability that a less formal, and thus less costly, mode of governance was chosen over a more formal one.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
collaboration to access new capabilities and deliver superior levels of product differentiation? That value is harder to measure, yet firms must solve this problem or miss out on huge opportunities. Consider Microsoft, which used an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
high levels of inequality. While closing the borders of small markets to globalization has been a recipe for slow growth and low productivity, opening them all too often is a recipe for instability and shocks. Effective institutions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Advocates claim that such a mechanism would level the playing field, whereas opponents argue that such a tariff is anti-competitive. This paper analyzes how carbon tariffs affect technology choice, regional competitiveness, and global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
although they received significantly lower levels of labor income than their native born counterparts. Overall, the contribution of foreign born inventors to U.S. innovation was substantial, but we also find evidence of an immigrant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
that a decision maker may use in a multiattribute decision problem. In addition, it may be used to tailor the utility elicitation process to the comfort level of the decision maker. The new conditions, and the corresponding functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
This same logic applies to other retailers, such as department stores. If you look at your data, the best customers are probably the customers who end up shopping for china or silverware—departments that some of your worst shoppers may not shop in. Service View Details