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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset pricing model is used to derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference analysis that compares U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
thousands of mutual funds to choose from, all with a few keystrokes. It's already happening." Of course, the Internet tidal wave affects not only customers but companies, too, and perhaps more profoundly. A case in point is the firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
it’s psychological. Life feels like it just keeps moving faster! We are not the first generation to experience such quickening, but it’s never affected so many people before. I think that overall we are not quite sure what to do with the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context that would View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
deploying and leveraging the resources at their disposal more effectively than their less capable counterparts. Furthermore, though managerial ability does indeed significantly affect resource productivity and organizational performance,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
alumni by immersing them back into the HBS case study experience before they met up with the student management teams. One of the major concerns raised in BlackRock acquiring MLIM—in a deal that would give MILM 49.5 percent equity in BlackRock—was how the addition... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
from organizational behavior, social psychology, and sociology from 1998 to 2010 that has already documented positive findings in relation to diversity. We discuss this research using two broad categories: (1) What is positively affected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) Harvard Business School Note 209-133 In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S. bankruptcy law, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai becomes CEO and successfully transforms Sony, including a relentless focus on differentiation through "wow" products instead of chasing scale. How should he organize and manage the company's response to digital opportunities, such as virtual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
come up with an innovative drug for Hepatitis C, which affected 180 million people worldwide. The drug was priced at $1,000 a pill for the U.S. market. Gilead had to decide how to price and market the pill in developing countries that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs faced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
alumni have told me, the reason for us to be engaged with business and society is not just because it's a moral issue or a social issue (though it is both), but also because neglecting to address it will affect economic growth and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
affected by COVID positively—namely, Walmart and Amazon. "I know those are not always companies that people view favorably in terms of work, but in the last 10 years, Walmart has been an amazing innovator in the space in terms of skills... View Details