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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
solutions aren't straightforward. Some reforms are surely not as strong as they should be, and current events in Congress should remind us that risks can escalate beyond the control of even the best regulations. But overall there is... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
PR, media buying, marketing research, etc.) captured by firms controlled by the four largest holding companies has remained a stable 25 percent for the past decade. This figure is roughly half the estimates often reported in the trade... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
against a control group of customers. Econometric analysis of historical data: Historical data are analyzed to determine how customers have responded to different marketing actions in the past. Predictions can then be made as to how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
control and the growth of professional management seen in the United States. That debate continues. But this book does report compelling research that shows that, historically, family ownership and management in many countries has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
supplement:http://hbr.org/search/710023-PDF-ENG Home Nursing of North Carolina Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-120 Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
decisions will come as business leaders figure out how to respond to new regulations, taxes, or to cap and trade schemes, all enacted to control the buildup of greenhouse gases. In addition to providing opportunities for quick-witted... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of the market for both music player hardware and online music sales. But the evolving ability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
"hitch" changes (a hitch is the two-week stint each worker does offshore, followed by two weeks off-duty). Each facility contains space for outdoor work, production facilities, power generation, drilling operations, control... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Better informed firms and consumers choose more favorable arbitrators. We develop and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection in which, like the current process, both the informed firms and uninformed consumers have control over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Kingdom, and the United States). By this measure, family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CEOs, even when we control for a wide range of CEO, firm, and industry characteristics. The differences in hours worked between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for customer fixed effects. However, orders placed by a customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
process so that creators produce tangible artifacts regularly; (6) realize that there will always be some conflict between an organization's creators and its stewards; (7) avoid overly prescriptive control mechanisms that may alienate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
1994 and 2010, indicating the CPP is an influential event in the history of U.S. bank SEOs during this period. Controlling for economic and regulatory capital determinants of SEOs, CPP recipients were more likely than non-recipients to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne