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- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved by developing a real consensus on the part of investors' home... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
enables individuals—a teen manipulating the stock market—to overthrow established players. The old rules no longer apply. You argue that during these periods of change the old rules may not apply for a period of time, but in the end the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
following six key activities that achieve, then propel, their success. 1. Planning. They develop a family strategic plan—usually with the help of trusted advisors—to specify their goals and values and clarify how they will achieve those... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
effect was mediated by self-reported feelings of moral purity. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased the amount of money participants donated to a good cause, and self-reported feelings of moral purity mediated this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
help their organizational unit implement it. Enterprises must have active policies to communicate, educate, motivate, and align employees with the strategy. They must also align their ongoing management processes—for resource allocation,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
hefty dose of transparency goes a long way to doing the right thing." What do you think? Original Article Early in the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion and leak disaster, BP agreed to activate a camera fixed on the source of the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
placement around this sales cutoff. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
competitive structure of the global real estate services market mandating that providers become more customer-solutions oriented. The case is set shortly after the announcement of the restructuring which, for the first time, will place... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
Playing on social media, particularly when the playful activity occurs in real time during a live event, can charm an audience—while in some cases costing little to do so. Dutch shipping container company... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
addition, unconscious thought might be more dependable than conscious thought when we are low on energy. Preliminary research also indicates that using odor or sound cues during sleep might activate our unconscious mind and improve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-012.pdf FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability Authors:Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study how the availability of domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal tailoring of marketing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
obvious that no real commitment was made by the board of directors.” The public sector bears some responsibility for fostering stakeholder capitalism. IndexLlc commented that “the real problem has been the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for it? Probably not, as long as there is a giant global community (Facebook), with a billion monthly active members, including that high school exchange student who they lost touch with when they went back to Bolivia. And that one's... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Greenwood Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Firms can manipulate their stock price by limiting the ability of their investors to sell. I examine a series of corporate events in Japan in which firms View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
product specifications significantly increases the impact of the price subsidy on take-up. Taken alone, the information manipulation has no significant impact on demand, while the price subsidy substantially increases demand. However,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
fully realized and are stronger in mature, slow growth industries. Prices do not fall, however, when the acquirer is diversifying into a new product market. This direct evidence of real changes induced by merger View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino