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  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron Abstract We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

really, really, really miserable to be away from home during Diwali,” Choudhury recalls. By analyzing company performance data, the researchers were able to make a causal connection between “vacation flexibility” and job performance. On... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

or vice versa? A: As a matter of academic rigor, we do not at this stage of the research make a causal statement on this. However, we believe that multimarket interaction in product, labor, and capital markets with the U.S. that results... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

How HBS Changed My Life

Professor Clayton Christensen on how disruptive innovation is the causal mechanism behind growth and prosperity of nations. Without HBS, I would not have been able to develop the voice to speak at an event alongside fellow HBS alumnus and... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

with a grounding in the construction of business theories and bridging those theories to the world of practice. The hope is that we can then recognize well researched theories of causality as a basis for understanding why things happen... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Shattering Glass

much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow focus on trying to establish a... View Details
Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-056.pdf   PublicationsSocial Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

to identify with much greater precision the causal link between management and performance. "We want to get at the causality between management and performance," she says. "And to do that, you... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by Friedman and Jones included... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 20 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

Asia and South America), gender diversity has little or even negative correlation with firm performance. Granted, we cannot make a causal claim because we do not have an identification strategy, but this study gives us strong preliminary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our data. To help identify causal effects, we look within multinational firms, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://issuu.com/accaglobal_publications/docs/af08_2014_comp_lowres August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

information about the quality of colleagues for each analyst. Because we had data over a long period of time for all these factors, we were able to distinguish the causal effects of individual and organizational factors on star... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract This paper examines whether staggered boards reduce firm value or are merely associated with it due to the tendency of low-value firms to maintain staggered boards. To analyze this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

causal relationship between the two. The problem, of course, is that only certain types of punches-punches to the stomach-produce stomachaches. "Without greater precision about mechanism, it would be easy to wrongly dismiss the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding