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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
understood as a valuable learning experience. The second CEO, by contrast, described performing a great deal of emotional labor while attempting to keep the business in stasis—exhausting tasks with no clear milestones. No wonder he felt depleted even though the View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
once they’ve set the table for themselves, then harness the passion and be able to go and use the magic of that and that’s where they will be stronger for it. If we can have the analytic ones be able to understand the path ahead, not have the fear of the unknown be the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
are less informed. The main reason is that price information leads user expectations to be more responsive and therefore amplifies the effect of price reductions. Platforms with more market power benefit because higher responsiveness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
we utilize a natural experiment to show that the effect of relationship bank lending, intensity on takeover probability is not driven by endogeneity issues. Finally, we investigate reasons motivating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
told him I was pretty certain that I was an admissions mistake, and that I wasn’t going to be able to cut it at HBS, what with all of the emphasis on quant. He said, “Well, I’ve been here a long time, and one thing I know for sure is that we don’t make admissions... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation may take over five years so the happiness gains that they experience, while not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
motivated by the fact that many scholars in business schools had offered no real policy prescriptions for how the United States could get out of the Depression. Moreover, so many businesspeople had been seen as not necessarily following... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
distribute products, this is how you price them, this is how you brand them, this is how leadership is optimized, this is how you design organizations, and this is how you motivate people. Take any subject, they were all grounded in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
are dramatically different and quite exciting. Working in civil society, you are surrounded by people who are deeply passionate about the calls that they serve. And issues around motivation and organizational focus are relatively easier... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Reorganizations—Triangular Mergers Harvard Business School Note 207-009 Discusses the reasons and uses of triangular or three-party mergers to complete a business acquisition or tax-free corporate reorganization. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
firms share a type of commons. We theorize that the need to protect this commons can motivate the formation of a self-regulatory institution. Using data from the US chemical industry, we find that spillover harm from industrial accidents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
one an overland trip across four African countries that culminated in volunteer work at a university in Mauritius. These were two totally different experiences, but with the same impact: They gave DiDonna some real separation from his work, and reminded him what it was... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
relational contracts (i.e., informal agreements sustained by the shadow of the future). We argue that one of the reasons these practices may be difficult to copy is that effective relational contracts must solve the twin problems of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel