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- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
analysts from Gradient Analytics and Banc of America face charges of stock price manipulation from Biovail, a Canadian pharmaceutical company. Gradient and BofA produced negative reports on Biovail's earnings quality. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
suspicious. Q: What countries and corrupt activities have you studied? Have you been particularly surprised by anything you have learned? What trends are you seeing? A: My research does not have a geographic focus, although the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
sometimes, employees. A second concern is misallocation or inefficiency. Engaging in activities deemed "socially responsible," critics argue, entails diverting resources best used for economic purposes to advance purposes for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We explore the implications of a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
has a negative real impact on the future innovative activity of targeted firms. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2464303 Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
aftermath of Japan's 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing--and coping with--the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. The direct impact on real economic View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
fixed-income securities, mostly earning near-zero real yields. How can this capital find bankable projects that allow for private sector development and investment—at huge scale—to help solve these challenges while at the same time... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
opportunity to start over, similar to our thought experiment. I wanted to follow their efforts, and specifically to see what entrepreneurial activity would spring up in the highly uncertain post-storm environment. I wrote a context case... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
there are important implications for firm boundaries, design, and identity. The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda Authors:Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano Publication:The Rate and Direction of Inventive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
bearers of bad news as unlikeable stems in part from their desire to make sense of chance processes. Consistent with this account, receiving bad news activates the desire to sense-make (Study 3A), and in turn, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
find that our measure of short-termism is associated with various proxies for accruals and real earnings management, suggesting that our proxy captures not just different disclosure strategies, but also different managerial styles. Next,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
well (and no one is there to watch you). Exercise is also an area where individuals have a great deal of control, which makes it a therapeutic activity in times of uncertainty. Short-term bursts of strenuous View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
obvious that no real commitment was made by the board of directors.” The public sector bears some responsibility for fostering stakeholder capitalism. IndexLlc commented that “the real problem has been the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for it? Probably not, as long as there is a giant global community (Facebook), with a billion monthly active members, including that high school exchange student who they lost touch with when they went back to Bolivia. And that one's... View Details