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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Who Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance Professionals Use financial tools and metrics to inform strategic decision-making and drive business performance. The program expertly leads you through progressively more complex View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
support) to build up their theories of change and their organizational capacities. That, I think, is a positive development. But it's coming at a time when need is even greater and resources are diminishing. It's really a double-edged... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
increasingly important but daunting challenge. The teaching of any subject is many-sided. However, discharging the responsibilities of a university educator is particularly complex. Teaching is only one of many activities expected of a... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
isolation, and as a consequence avoid deviating much-for any given subset-from the expected overall distribution of judgments. For instance, an interviewer who has already highly recommended three applicants on a given day may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
own investment portfolios, and whether they should be investing more in the United States or globally,” Viceira says. First things first. Why have markets become increasingly correlated? The paper proposes two possibilities. The first View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
collateral consequences of idle time; when workers expect idle time following a task, their work pace declines and their task completion time increases. This decline reverses the well-documented deadline effect, producing a dead-time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
himself and coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete?, before leading a discussion on approaches to Japan's economic recovery. The conversation sparked considerable debate around his own View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today's managing directors must balance conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
labeling conventions—representing, in the words of the authors, "an exercise in linguistics, not economics." Like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concluded that concepts like time and distance depend on one's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
in the theory called disruption. And then, there was a second puzzle. And that is, I wonder if innovation is intrinsically a crapshoot because everybody-- every company and every project, when you started out, you don't plan to fail. You... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device industry. Focal firm recalls slow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about when and why companies merge or acquire other firms—and how... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
consider what other institutions, such as companies, might do. In addition, companies are sometimes more responsive than governments to the populace. Our aim is to encourage creative theory and research that considers the conditions under... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls