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- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while nonprofits can learn more... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
In their reciprocal pursuits of internships and interns, HBS MBA candidates and participating employers invest a considerable amount of interest, time and, in many cases, money. With so much at stake, both... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
they trust? And wouldn't those trusted stores in return be motivated to use that information wisely? "The challenge is to give people a claim on their identities while protecting them from... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910409-PDF-ENG CommonAngelTM (A) Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Simpson, Max White, and Christopher McDonaldHarvard Business School Case 810-082 Describes the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Ozik, and Sadka stop short of assigning a definitive explanation for this distortion of information, their research indicates that managers may provide misleading information for self-serving reasons: “The data suggest they may be View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
through on anyone, I wouldn’t give it back, either. Chicago Bears Team Chaplain Jonathan Wilkins also serves as a motivational speaker for sports and corporate teams. View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
today's diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Most Popular... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
Teaching Note for 611057. View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
differences, clearly public entrepreneurs are ultimately responsible to and accountable to voters, citizens, people living in the community. And that’s different from being mainly responsible to private... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
competing incentives in building the metaverse, our view is that the metaverse can still succeed,” they write, “but it might call for a shift in mindset and an openness to learning from seemingly distant... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus alternatives,” the paper states. The role of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt them and a well-developed understanding of how they work-remains incomplete. In this paper, we suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
industrial expansion.7 Globalization need not work this way. Its benefits can be steered to all nations and to all levels in each nation in a more equitable manner. But a free-market, laissez-faire process will not do this automatically.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence