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- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
willingness to project vulnerability—requiring a high level of humility—as a means of establishing a basis for trust among organization members. For example, HBS Professor Amy Edmondson, in her discussion of ways of building... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace.Lagace: In your paper you View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
problem. In a number of major, competitive markets, whether it’s San Francisco or LA or New York or even Boston, during the pandemic many people did leave. Boise, Idaho, had the strongest appreciation of any housing market in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
annually and acquired 15 million customers—more than a third of the country’s population—within five years of launch. A woman checks her mobile phone at a floating market in the Mekong River, Vietnam. Mobile phone use is widespread in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
researchers say, is, it depends. "The technology we use to negotiate affects our definition of the negotiation game and the behavior deemed appropriate for the interaction," write Bazerman, Valley et al. Generally, face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
done, often without their customers’ knowledge, in order to meet goals for achieving “deeper” relationships with them. The number of a bank’s services supposedly used by each customer is a way in which Wells Fargo (and many other banks)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
for startups in the software and media industries that could make use of AWS, funding increased from 375 to 700 firms, a nearly 100 percent rise. The impact of the cloud on VC funding After the 2006 introduction of Amazon Web Services, VC... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
believe that these extraordinary times call for massive public funds to be used for economic interventions, shouldn't these efforts be at least partially designed to promote new enterprises? Second, in many nations the venture industry is... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
pointed out that "So many managers are afraid that attitude is too soft, too difficult to assess and to use as a key hiring criteria." Saurabh Dwivedy commented that "...attitude, morals, ethics, and leadership skills are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
progress perhaps we should be focusing on trying to understand what the incentives should be that support a useful and perhaps better level of inequality." Referring in part to differences in per-capita income distribution among... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley studies the intersection of business and law, and is interested in how companies can use legal resources as a competitive asset. In this interview, Bagley... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention View Details