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- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
percent increase in new patents between firms in those places. “Even in a hybrid world, even in a world of work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes.” Choudhury and colleagues teased... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
living for a very meaningfully sized community.” The Bodka Creek project embodies everything Beckford envisioned for DLS. As a small boutique firm with limited resources, the company evaluates potential... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
this pattern.” For those earning more than $200,000 a year, their income classified as salary decreased while their capital income–which is what the corporate tax cut is applied to–increased. The capital income increase was more than twice the View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
correlation with firm performance. “It's a way to monitor where the efforts of the CEO are going” In a final measure of CEO's performance, the researchers rated firms based on the quality of governance,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
the duration and size of price changes using scraped data collected from 181 retailers in 31 countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52241 March–April 2018 Harvard Business Review Why Compliance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
Careers From C-Suite to CEO Careers From C-Suite to CEO Interested in making the transition from C-suite executive to CEO? The path will be different for everyone, however, studies of successful CEOs, case studies of alumni, and feedback from executive search View Details
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Hershey also has a firm anti-retaliation policy, which is intended to make whistleblowers feel secure about reporting illegal or unethical activities. Nelson says the ethics at corporations like Costco and Hershey start with the creation... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
cases of downsizing price increases, firms have chosen to maintain the sticker price of a product, but have reduced the quantity contained in that product. Thus, a tin of coffee stays $2.99, but shrinks from 14.5 ounces to 13 ounces, for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
used firm size as a proxy for reputation and utilized uniqueness and political slant indices to account for other company characteristics. The study did not take into account costs or any discounts or... View Details
- Web
Research Design - Impact Investments
Currently, our sample focuses on impact investors and portfolio companies based in the United States, where approximately 52% of the world’s impact investors are located. [5] Future research will expand the Project on Impact Investments to leading impact investing... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
would avoid a "one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
ask? And more specifically, what are the sources of influence on the decisions that they make?” At large public companies, boards of directors are usually in charge of how and what to pay their CEOs. It’s an expensive decision. Among the 350 top View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
good old days really existed and they voted to bring them back. Pursue forgotten consumers. Most financial firms chase the same high net worth prospects, ignoring or at best taking for granted millions of modestly prosperous people. Trump... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
seen as a recidivist. Thus, you see a lot of firms agonizing trying to figure out whether they should voluntarily self-report or not. An increasing number of savvy companies that choose not to voluntarily report are addressing the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace