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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Yet a vigorous tradition in the accounting literature establishes that firms routinely sacrifice long-term investment to manage earnings and are rewarded for doing so. This paper presents a model that reconciles these apparently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
subscriptions for the service. “I especially find it rewarding as these emerging companies develop projects that, in the long run, will contribute to a better world for the coming generation; they all want to do more and do better with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medical education and recredentialing programs. Finally, in order to understand the potential for change, it is necessary to look at reimbursement issues. Diagnosis is the critical and time-consuming element in personalized medicine, but with few exceptions, physicians... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
and for what share? Or has the culture of "free" become so deeply imbedded in the minds of a new generation of users that content developers can only hope for partial, occasional, or eventual financial View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
since the early part of the twentieth century, he believes the time may be right for significant change. He's not alone. Theodore Zeldin, a British historian who has spent a great deal of time studying the world of work, stated recently in an interview with the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
organization that provides essential services, technology, or connections used by a large number of other participants. Orchestrating an ecosystem as the hub can be a significant undertaking. It often requires a firm to make up-front risky investments with the hope of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
We are in the greatest crisis of our lifetimes—even worse than 9/11 and the 2008-09 financial meltdown that triggered the Great Recession. This crisis is directly affecting every person, even those who don’t recognize it yet. Now is a... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
criteria necessary to receiveadditional funding. "The answers were not always clear," he says."In the business world, if you succeed you will be rewarded withadditional capital. In the nonprofit world, I simply didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
tractor-tanker into Marcia Rhodes’s stopped car: horrible medical traumas, an unending financial struggle, a daughter’s deep depression and alienation, and endless battles against insurance companies and an uncaring legal system. Spinoza... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
http://hbr.org/2010/10/the-power-of-alumni-networks/ar/1 Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? Authors:Shawn A.Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Anthony Tan
distributor in Malaysia, Tan had a bright and well assured future. But while earning his MBA at HBS in 2011, Tan was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and began to envision the rewards of starting an enterprise from scratch, especially... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
contracts, legal documentation, torts, and the dynamics of litigation; explore intellectual property (IP), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and the basics of bankruptcy; and examine contemporary issues in securities law, private equity transactions and regulatory... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
you." The final attribute is rewards based on value created rather than position in a hierarchy. Q: When you use this lens to look at the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, what insights does it provide? A: One insight is that... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
top levels of the hospital’s executive team. Josh started as a Special Assistant to Alastair, who oversaw a hospital-wide strategy team responsible for a wide range of initiatives. “On my first assignment, I used skills I already had to make a View Details
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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
alone thrive—unless it is also able to monetize some of that value – in order to generate sufficient funds to pursue future innovations, repay and reward investors, or support social and environmental initiatives. Accordingly, Pricing... View Details