Financial Services (All) - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

executive programs on jumpstarting innovation that I chair for executives in large firms and owners of small to midsize businesses are all oversubscribed. This interest in innovation is confirmed by an IBM study in 2006 that asked over... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of the top 25 patenting U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

financial chicanery or unethical dealings. “Often what you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm, but that can make people so loyal that when they see something wrong they don’t bring it up” That dichotomy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. IBM's diversity task forces benefited from all four. Demonstrate Leadership Support It's become a cliché to say that leadership matters, but the issue... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a longitudinal field study of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

profusion of diverse topics into a single work, all in service to an untenable thesis. Schumpeter had grown up reading ponderous German treatises containing sentences hundreds of words long, and his... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

giving them all the same data and preparation materials in negotiating the sale of a piece of property. Eyes are opened when Mohan shares the results and the students see how well they fared price-wise compared to others. "It opens... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

and consistency), then it coincides with the core (Theorems 1 and 2). However, we also prove that on the class of all one-sided assignment problems (solvable or not), no solution satisfies consistency and coincides with the core whenever... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

compensation on performance across salespeople; unconditional compensation is more effective for salespeople with high base performance, whereas conditional compensation is equally effective across all types of salespeople. Lastly, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

genomics, diagnostic testing, and targeted therapies. They say that medical schools and physician organizations must become committed advocates of personalized medicine so that patients and the medical industry can get all the benefits it... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

although patenting in neural networks saw a strong burst of activity in the 1990s that has only recently been surpassed. In all technological fields, the number of patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details