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  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

between customized and standardized approaches to care and challenges students to examine their preconceived notions of the social role of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

I often felt like my routine crossing the river symbolized efforts to bridge the gap between the distinct social, cultural, and intellectual communities.  While I initially sought to resolve these... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

their organizations can benefit. This premise has led to widespread promotion of collaboration—among front-line staff and between staff and managers—as a strategy to integrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

given their immense differences; an economics group at Amherst College is using our dataset to find links between COVID responses and rugged individualism; and Emory University... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

whose job is growing accounts with a lot of potential and farmers whose job is to maintain strong and broad-based relationships. CRLs must walk a fine line between being close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

something new to spur on their employees. According to Beer, managers in many companies look to pay-for-performance for good reasons. They expect that it will attract and motivate people. They expect View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, we see that, in choosing contract language, market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

true economic performance is. The evolution of the 2 parallel universes of financial and accounting reporting systems appears to be a historical accident rather than a manifestation of 2 competing views of... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

solid foundation that will allow your organization to amplify its impact in today's highly volatile environment. Educational Objectives The goal of this course is to expose you to management systems used by ventures to overcome tradeoffs... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

can be found in: (1) discovery, the challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by dot-com entrepreneurs willing to work 24/7 in search of the new or unknown, (2) excellence, in which high standards... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

reducing counter-party risk between financial institutions; and the strengthening of regulators' abilities to require more capital (and less overall leverage) at our financial institutions. They clearly will... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace