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  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad

By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles
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  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Estimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts

    Measuring demand uncertainty is a key activity in supply chain planning, but is difficult when demand history is unavailable such as for new products. One method that can be applied in such cases uses dispersion among forecasting experts as a measure of demand... View Details
    • December 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    Income Inequality and the CEO Pay Ratio at TJX Cos

    By: Ethan Rouen and Akari Furukawa
    TJX Companies reported a CEO pay ratio of 1,596-to-1 in 2019, leaving board chair Carol Meyrowitz with a host of questions about whether, and how, she could take action to address concerns raised by having one of the highest pay ratios in the S&P 500. As a retail... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Pay Ratio; Income; Equality and Inequality; Executive Compensation; Corporate Disclosure; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • July–August 2019
    • Article

    The Soul of a Startup

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge.
    But all too often,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Creativity; Business Growth and Maturation
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Attenuating Effect of Banking Relationships on Credit Market Disruption

    By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Mike Horia Teodorescu
    This article examines how the relationship between banks and corporations moderates the effect of credit market disruptions. The 2008-09 financial crisis led to a dramatic restriction in the supply of credit to corporations via the syndicated loan market... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Relationships; Financial Markets; System Shocks; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

    By: Mihnea Moldoveanu
    I introduce algorithmic and meta-algorithmic models for the study of strategic problem solving, aimed at illuminating the processes and procedures by which strategic managers and firms deal with complex problems. These models allow us to explore the relationship... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Business Strategy
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    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details
    Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Consumer Behavior; Emotions
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    • 02 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management

      Lazy Prices

      QuantCon NYC 2018 Quantitative Investing Confernece - Interview Video

       Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014,... View Details

      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

      By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
      This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
      Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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      • 27 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

      government requirements. What happens when your competitor discloses—and you don’t? The researchers found that if the competition discloses its diversity data and you don’t, consumers have lower purchasing intentions toward you. Moreover, consumers react more... View Details
      Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
      • 26 Feb 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: February 26, 2008

        Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset, we examine how firms use... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 06 Mar 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: March 6

      criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      The Imposter Among Us

      transactional investment banker, then principal investor and founder of a private investment firm in an unusual niche, the imposter phenomenon remained. I felt an omnipresent fear of incompetence, of finally being “discovered” as not... View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 23 Dec 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: December 23

      dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • Research Summary

      Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms?

      In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control by investigating the loan policy pricing effect of banks' voting stakes on their borrowers. A sample of loans taken out over the 2000-2003 time period shows that banks charge lower rates on... View Details