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- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
life—not to be quiet because my boss or my competitor or colleague is fascinating me. It’s not a reason to be quiet and shut up.” After graduating, Herlaut found occasion to speak up—in her actions—after a prestigious firm passed her over... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
people's pensions-widespread corruption that has led to huge financial losses for the government each year. The Creation Of Aadhaar Aadhaar, which means "foundation" in Hindi, is the brand name used to describe the 12-digit... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
these potentially damaging biases. You may be crystal clear on the right negotiation problem—but you can't solve it correctly without a firm understanding of both sides' interests, BATNAs, valuations, likely actions, and so on. Yet, just... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
since then I’ve been trying to understand the economic gaps in the United States. Why are large groups of people systemically financially underprivileged?” One answer, Davis soon discovered, is a lack of access to real estate. Davis, now... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down recently, McNerney succeeded in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
changed with the times, what improvements, if any, have they experienced in customer satisfaction and financial performance? Shapiro: Unfortunately, we did not formally maintain relationships with the many companies that we used as field... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 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
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
expand on how firms can break free from the grip of what he refers to as the Devil's Triangle. Sean Silverthorne: Describe the Devil's Triangle and how it can hinder a firm's ability to grow. Frank Cespedes: We use this as a metaphor for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
credit analysts exhibit a sizable partisan gap in their economic outlook, with roughly two-thirds the size of the gap observed among households. This bias affects analysts’ decision to upgrade or downgrade corporate credit ratings, directly affecting the cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
time and energy to something greater than myself. So when I left the Army to attend HBS, I knew I wanted to try and capture that same sense of purpose. Enter fall internship recruiting. While my classmates were all knee-deep in case interview prep for top tier... View Details