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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
relationships between those who regulate them, serve them, and invest in them. That’s a lot of substance among responses to this month’s column. As Ulrich Nettesheim put it, “It is an excellent time to be reexamining how we currently... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
wine grapes in Argentina and salmon in Chile. Q: What do you see happening in supply chain regulation based on your own research? A: I am looking at a variety of industry self-regulation programs that firms are implementing, often in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
economic spectrum are creating faux management jobs, pointing to wage cases filed by workers at tech and financial services giants. The team found a five-fold increase in manager titles like “directors of first impressions” (aka... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a major convertible currency. Elsewhere exchange controls View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
in affiliates and associates that were started locally and were independent organizations. She wanted to build a culture around quality and accountability, and get more services out to the population that way, said Wei-Skillern. The network now includes direct service... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
learning, can reorient research about the link between identity-group-based diversity and performance. How to Make Finance Work Authors:Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Once a sleepy old boys'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating profit of just 4-5 percent. A... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
particularly tough time. During the 1990s small investors lost out to professional financial firms that manipulated the market; this time they're likely to lose out—if they're not careful—to other sophisticated investors as well. The Next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
profit. I believe that many companies undermine their own strategies. Nobody does it to them. They do it themselves. Their strategies fail from within. Then there is the host of strategy killers in the external environment. These range from so-called industry experts... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
very little about how to prevent a bubble from becoming a problem in the first place. Q: In your own field of research, what are you working on these days? A: Well, I'm working on a number of things. I've spent a great deal of time over the past year thinking about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher costs of doing so for more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel