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  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

work also provides insights into how firms can create employment contracts that are in step with company goals. This e-mail interview is based on two working papers by Autrey and colleagues Shane Dikolli and D. View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

fantasy but as a horror movie. "This season's biggest holiday extravaganza, 'The Polar Express,' should be subtitled 'The Night of the Living Dead,' " groused CNN reviewer Paul Clinton. "If I were a kid, I'd have nightmares," wrote Geoff... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
    • December 1987 (Revised August 1990)
    • Case

    Florida Power & Light's Quality Improvement Program

    Describes a major electric utility's highly successful effort to institute a comprehensive quality improvement program throughout the organization. Designed to be used in a comparative analysis of the quality improvement effort described in Paul Revere Insurance Co.... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Performance Productivity; Utilities Industry; Florida
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    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking” Last spring, Toffel sought to change that by taking the unusual step of convening academics and government regulators in the same room for a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 27 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

    official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

    back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Luis M. Viceira

      Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

      Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
      • 21 Dec 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: December 21

      article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
      • Article

      How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
      For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making
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      • May 2011
      • Article

      Challenge the Boss or Stand Down

      By: W. Earl Sasser
      This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1105X, and commentary-only, R1105Z. Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Conferences; Service Industry
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      • 22 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

      opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • February 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Still Leading Series—Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, James Honan and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      The Still Leading case series includes an introductory note, “Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life” and 10 supplementary cases that cover the transition of highly accomplished and prolific leaders (Hon. Robert McDonald, Hon.... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Transition
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      • 16 Jan 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: January 16, 2007

        Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 16 Jun 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

      Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
      Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
      • 11 Apr 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, April 11

      biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created... View Details
      • March 2016 (Revised June 2016)
      • Case

      Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Hann-Shuin Yew and Monica Baraldi
      In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm oil cultivation. Historically, palm oil was produced using unsustainable methods that included burning large tracts of... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Environment; Industry Self-regulation; Corporate Image; Corporate Strategy; Indonesia; Malaysia
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      • 01 Jun 2024
      • News

      Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

      As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna
      • Research Summary

      Information Intermediation

      Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details