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- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
spirited three-year-old son, and is expecting a second child; Brooks just returned to HBS from maternity leave in August. In other words, these are the last people in the world who would try to thwart female ambition with scientific... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
time. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
have lost their “exceptional” luster. IT wage premiums today have more to do with where a job is practiced than with rewarding specific skills. “While it is a popular hypothesis that returns to IT skills are exceptionally high in the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a rise in creditor coordination costs. The last View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab experiments. For starters, they conducted a field study at Wipro, a major... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
over time to draw meaningful conclusions, they ended up with a set of some 2,500 companies. The first thing that stuck out to the researchers was the lack of growth among most of those firms. While one might naturally expect a bell curve,... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
results show that inexperienced fund managers as defined by age (under thirty-five) exhibited trend-chasing behavior that produced over-investment in tech stocks. "Our results fit well with adaptive expectations models of... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were shown a stressful film and were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA7), forthcoming Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we lack a formal theory and model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
happiness gains above those that were already in place once the 1960s' standard of living had been achieved. However in the poorest half of nations we cannot reject the null hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
good customers up to a value of 40 percent of what the customer is expected to spend, the "theoretical win." (Casinos, as you might expect, are experts at predicting what their favored customers will spend during a visit). If a casino... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
higher price per share. (source: Figure 1 of our paper) Our hypothesis was that rather than effecting significant operational change, hedge funds create value by putting firms "in play" as potential merger or acquisition... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
are consistent with the hypothesis that firms controlled by large shareholders with excess control rights choose public debt financing over bank debt as a way of avoiding scrutiny and insulating themselves from bank monitoring. Multivoxel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne