Informational Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

information and updates through early 2016. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717504-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-025 Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future? In July 2017, Dr.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

companies have budgets in the first place is to help coordinate the disparate parts of their businesses. By openly sharing accurate information and basing decisions on a common set of numbers, the thinking goes, you ensure harmonious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market to distribute wealth in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

mentors and offering girls information about the returns to education), suggesting that negotiation skills themselves drive the effect. Further evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, which simulates parents’ educational investment... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

export-oriented policies have still fared much better than other policies, for example import substitution, even if they have not been an unqualified success. Policy implications What does this mean for economic policy, i.e. how are government policies View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

precisely what they are—to information that would help people make assessments about which markets they want to be in and how much risk they’re taking on. Highlight it in the same way that we provide View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

performance while ensuring that their limited energy and processing capacity is being spent on truly mission-critical tasks. "It is nearly impossible to plan for the next six months—there simply is not enough data and information to do... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

small number of large major accounts, some mid-sized ones (the previous focus of the field sales force), and often a bunch of little ones. And, accounts are complex collections of diffuse buying teams involving different customer functional departments (purchasing,... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

practices that place a great deal of weight on "attitude" and "listening skills." Trust is a cornerstone of an efficient and effective system. Bad things happen when it is undermined by unmet expectations or ethical... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

brought greater transparency and more discipline and efficiency to an undisciplined, inefficient market. Unfortunately, there's no doubt that more and better information means it will be harder to be the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

States. Yet to roll out lottery-linked products in an efficient way, we need to address the legal and regulatory barriers. Q: Can these ideas for savings vehicles be extended to households with higher incomes too? A: The work that I do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

business. Yoffie: Platforms really are double-edged swords. They are some of the most valuable, efficient ways to organize commerce, and they are also a potential source of violence, disinformation, antitrust abuse, worker abuse, racism,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

information available, history, experience, the number of deciders, and so forth. Nevertheless, several comments reflected an uneasy fondness for a good dose of intuition in the mix. Guy Gould-Davies' comment was particularly insightful:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

early principles of the company in an informal session at Levitt's Belmont home. Berolzheimer's family business was an industrial company, providing wood slats to pencil manufacturers; Levitt urged him to form a separate entity to focus... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new technologies, thereby increasing productivity within firms during times of rapid technological change. Download... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

First Look: June 25

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

First Look: October 19, 2010

How Ethical Can We Be?

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

First Look: June 18

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Leadership and Teaming

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

First Look: August 16

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