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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership
My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
address any one of these challenges can cause the restructuring to fail. Having A Business Purpose Restructuring is more likely to be successful when managers first understand the fundamental business/strategic problem or opportunity that... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
ALS. I'm recruiting the anti-ALS cause to enhance my personal capital. Alas, for marketers looking for low-cost market impact, few commercial brands enhance personal capital.... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50401 forthcoming European Economic Review Taxation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
practices require a certain level of competency and numeracy in the workforce.” The need for a skilled workforce to implement these management practices provides one explanation for why management differences aren’t so easily smoothed over through View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
operational standpoint when customers are waiting for a service they find valuable and then decide to quit. “Showing customers the work that’s being done to serve them can cause them to mind waiting less and value the service more”... View Details
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania to focus on retail operations, many considered the topic an "oxymoron." “The right labor needs to be available at the right time and store to match customers with products more effectively.” "Retailing was seen as a... View Details
- 23 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Could Bring Globalization Down?
the First World War, a crisis of globalization today is a low-probability worst-case scenario. The key causes of the 1914 crisis were: The overstretch of the hegemonic empire (Britain). The escalation of rivalry between great powers... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
rights leader and role model for millions of people around the world. How did he do it? Early in his career, Ali’s creativity and hard work helped him overcome significant obstacles. Ali used his growing fame to bring attention to racism and humanitarian View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
find that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort relative to paying market wages. However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift (by hiring at a given wage, and then offering a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
The 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. Between 1950 and 1973 the annual real GDP growth of developed market economies averaged around 5 percent. This growth was smooth, with none of the major... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
The Effects of Salary Negotiations By: Zoë B. Cullen , Bobak Pakzad-Hurson and Ricardo Perez-Truglia 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Salary negotiations are a widespread phenomenon that can shape key labor market outcomes, such as... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
learning these new skills and end up quitting, causing the company to lose hundreds of years of cumulative experience. The CEO is now unsure of how to proceed. Keywords: Training ; Competency and Skills ; Employees ; Change Management ;... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
machines, mobile phones, and laundry services. Here, 19 of the 20 items were seen as significantly less permissible for the lower-income person, with only personal care products, like shampoo or toothpaste, being the exception. What View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights
By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Rights; Monopoly; Business Startups
Anton, James J., Hillary Greene, and Dennis Yao. "Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights." Innovation Policy and the Economy 6 (2006): 1–26. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman