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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
information technology that we have been expecting for several decades finally kick in, producing larger-than-expected productivity gains to fuel both higher wages and higher profits? How important was the loosening of regulations on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
market has grown at a rate of 6 percent annually in the United States. Government approval of new medical devices seems slower than it needs to be, according to a new study. ©iStock.com/basha The FDA has only regulated medical devices... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
219-018 "Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
the restructuring of Chrysler in the midst of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. It describes how debtors can use section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to sell assets quickly. It allows for discussion of who benefits and who loses in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Board Scorecard, and the Executive Scorecard. These Scorecards clarify goals, priorities, processes, and ownership, and define the linkages between desired financial results and the actions needed to achieve them. Context Professor Palepu... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
million employee assistance fund. Other actions included 50 percent salary reductions for the CEO and directors and a suspension of its 401(k) matching program. Some firms have entered into arrangements with other organizations to help ease the View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
make self-serving decisions and ignoring the plight of others. To date, more than a year since the crisis started, despite much public outrage and threats to more strongly regulate the financial industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
who artfully morphed their founding stories to fit their current iteration, creating a narrative arc as the companies evolved, McDonald says. “The founding story that’s associated with a Facebook app becoming a regulated View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
content, mobile is less important than advertised, one day of the week isn’t better than others, and case studies are most preferred. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54512 forthcoming Organization Science Corporate Purpose and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
away from performance begins at age 4 (when ToM begins to develop), years before children enter puberty. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/chaplin%20norton_2de36765-4cc2-4d54-9c92-4247b2d2a189.pdf August 2014 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
company’s competitiveness after the downturn ends? For the last five years, we have been studying layoffs and their alternatives. Our goal with this research is to help leaders understand when it makes sense for companies to use layoffs to address their View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
institution, indicating that the brokers might know that a leak might negatively affect investors. Where are the regulators? If brokers are engaging in illicit activity, why haven’t regulators noticed? “For the same reason that many... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
anti-predatory laws to instrument for an outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the preemption View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
including proprietary data that has never been shared with scholars before and can lead to novel lines of inquiry.” Harvard Business School’s Michael Toffel. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” he says. Toffel, whose own research examines how... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
financial industry and those who regulate it, there are strong but conflicting viewpoints about the impact of private equity buyouts of public firms, especially in the wake of the recent global View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
eventual entry of commercial banks, brokers, and other intermediaries into serving the middle-class market. My thesis at Penn examined how and why these institutions were established and regulated as well as how Americans used them for... View Details