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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Finance Using a sample of 3083 firms from 62 countries over 18 years, we analyze how the structure and identity of firms' material owners influence their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. We find that firms with... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • February 2023 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Doing Business in Santiago, Chile

By: Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
The case uses the example of the opening of the first IKEA furniture store in Chile – which is operated by Chilean group Falabella – to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the country. It gives readers an overview of Chile’s economic... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; Chile; Latin America
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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

profitability than those in the bottom quartile. A 2016 study of 21,980 firms in 91 countries found that companies with mixed gender boards outperformed those with all-male boards. Of course, you are aware of controversies surrounding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

instead. The comment came to Lincoln's ears. Lincoln promoted the general to the top command in the army anyway and told him, "I am appointing you to command despite, not because, of what you said. Bring us victories, and I'll risk... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

responsibility. A setback like that could have been paralyzing, but he was able to move forward to lead his country to victory in World War II." The lesson, says Nohria, is that Churchill and other great leaders are pragmatists who can... View Details
Keywords: Management
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Entrepreneurship (5) Corporate Finance (12) Corporate Governance (33) Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact (121) Corporate Strategy (97) Cost Accounting (3) Cost Management (9) Cost of Capital (1) Cost vs Benefits (8) Cost (15) View Details
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

opinion and policies? What are its risks and rewards? And what is the playbook for leaders considering speaking out? The authors of this article examine those questions and explain the takeaways of their own research. One finding:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

experimental field study, the researchers set out to test the efficacy of three distinct incentive schemes for employees in charge of assessing risk and issuing loans: the origination bonus (in which officers are rewarded a commission for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

risk of adverse effects that arise from taking a single approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49334   Working Papers Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects in U.S. Presidential Elections... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

of government spending on private sector economic activity. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment Authors:Flip Klijn, Joana Pais,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

one leadership team, or one organization or agency, could have successfully innovated to solve this problem. "Unfortunately, extreme teaming involves risk. And risk necessarily brings both success and failure" It’s also clear that simply... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

more critical than ever for Big Pharma to adopt it more broadly. He says the pandemic elevated urgency by: Exposing new risks and opportunities with Big Pharma’s current models. Driving global use of video-conferencing technology, which... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

contractual, reputational, and legal risks to overcome in making the project a success. Given these risks, Enterprise is unsure whether to rebuild in New Orleans at all and whether to renovate the site or redevelop it into a mixed-income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Skydeck - Alumni

these lessons? A Creator in the Era of Disruption Lessons from an Indonesian entrepreneur aiming for impact, not exit The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton. Traditional pension... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Profiles - MBA

Consumer Tech, Social Impact Tech Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: A few years ago, I found out that my father was at risk for diabetic retinopathy—a condition that can cause vision loss in diabetics.... View Details