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- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
people in all kinds of jobs, from the roustabouts who were doing the dirtiest work to the engineers and control room operators. Many were veterans of offshore work environments where proving their worth meant putting themselves in real... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, emphasized that the violence must stop before any hope for peace can be reestablished. Both sides have the power to View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
generate a control group of non-herbal patents that have similar medicinal purposes as our herbal patents through textual matching. Using this framework, we estimate a triple differences equation and find that herbal patents are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size, accounting quality, distance to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
product for the conversion of crop residues from corn into fermentable sugars for the production of motor fuels. But the problem was that the company only controlled one piece of the value chain. To succeed in this nascent sector, should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
definition of convenience—delivery, mobile ordering, curbside pickup. Whatever way its customers wanted to get their food, McDonald’s should offer it. “People want to control their own experience,” says Kempczinski. These new digital... View Details
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/130424-CGK-IPE.pdf Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors' Dissent in China By: Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—This paper examines the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Takafumi Horie, the thirty-three-year-old CEO of Livedoor, had become Japan's anti-establishment enfant terrible: rich, hard charging, willing to take big risks such as the ultimately failed attempt to acquire a controlling interest in... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
system doesn’t absolve leaders of responsibility, either. “Be vigilant,” Badaracco says. “Try to control the uses of what you produce, and develop a value, or a culture, of aggressive responsibility.” Learn a little from monks and... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
earlier research: Star performers flame out when they change firms. “This goes against the popular belief that we control our own destiny,” says Groysberg, who credits Dean Nitin Nohria and HLS professor Ashish Nanda (PhDBE 1993) as... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
the distinct but related spheres of ownership, family, and business overlap, influence one another, and evolve over time (see sidebar). "Most family businesses start with a single controlling owner," Davis explains. "Fifteen years down... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
as successful. Ron Kurtz (MBA ’67) Miami, FL Private-Equity Lessons Don’t Apply Professor Malcolm Salter’s article “Enron’s Legacy” in the December issue seems to offer an “if pigs had wings” analysis of Enron’s board of directors problem. Obviously, if Enron had been... View Details
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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.