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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
are used to good service from other industries and expect higher performance than they see on the delivery sector. They obviously worry a lot about whether their insurance will cover the medical services they need, but they are also... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
marriages to death, and even to organizational practices designed to promote cohesion. When Alison Wood Brooks, the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration, joined the HBS faculty, she was working on a paper about how View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it actually is boost their feelings of competence. We situate these findings in the literature on self-protection. We show that this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
basic business operations, reduced payroll by 35,000 employees, and updated and consolidated its inefficient IT systems. To refocus and reenergize employees, he also implemented a number of policy changes. Bonuses and variable pay, for example, were tied to overall... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and find that adverse selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
back centuries,” says Clay. “There’s a beauty in watching a foal being born and growing up to race and become a champion. It gets in your blood quickly.” When Clay attended the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) in the late 1970s, however, he did so in his View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
origins of the social psychology of creativity, trace its arc, and suggest directions for its future. Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation Authors:Cynthia Barnhart, Douglas S. Fearing, Amedeo Odoni, and Vikrant Vaze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
long ago that live streaming was thought to be a luxury possible only when the capacity of the internet could be expanded to accommodate storage and uploading capabilities demanded by the new services. Now it’s commonplace; we take it for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
performance of procedures rather than for accurate diagnosis and effective prevention. Aspinall and Hamermesh call for coordinating regulation and reimbursement so that incentives are provided for the right outcomes. Finally, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to improve the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
capacity to accommodate evolving learning styles is one of four priorities that shaped the 10-year master plan initiated under Dean Jay O. Light in 2006. Input from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and architect/planner Beyer, Blinder,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the... View Details