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- 02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2
Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
directly on the nature of the barriers that you face. When you have a potential deal in mind, we have developed a set of tools to quickly perform what we call a "3-D barriers audit" to determine what barriers stand between you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
major players by virtue of their scale and the scope of their activities, and in some communities they have been the only consistent service providers in a generation," he observes. "They can assess their performance much further down the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
the ability to help clients navigate and implement in this relatively new marketplace is valuable. However, working at scale means less ability to do client-specific work on small accounts. Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
military school in Brasilia, Brazil knowing this was my path to college and, more importantly, absolute financial independence from my family. While I succeeded, that came at a price: my identity could be summarized as just a high-performance student and displaying the... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variation in spending after accounting for physician beliefs. Physician organizational factors matter, but the single most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment: 35% of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
what the boss is doing all day. For all of the minute-to-minute monitoring of employee performance from the time of Henry Ford onward, it's amazing how little any of us really know about how CEOs of major companies spend their time.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Structure Show Hide Details Concepts An Introduction to Cost Fixed versus Variable Costs Relative Cost Analysis Supply Curves Scale Economies Featured Exercises Predict market structure by examining various costs and cost structures... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done using stock often View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
economy as a whole. Micro is about firms and individual actors and how they behave; macro is about aggregate performance of the economy: overall GDP, trade surplus or deficit, inflation. In principle, we should be able to get rid of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
relatively good forecasts of actual box office returns. In fact, the forecasting accuracy is what makes it such a valuable research setting. I used HSX to measure how the involvement of a movie star affects likely theatrical movie... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
positively correlated with the use of e-business practices. However,there is an important distinction between e-buying and e-selling. In e-buying, the likelihood of adoption is increasing in both relative productivity and in market share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of volume-based learning in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
a series of studies, they found that when leaders were focused on their own sense of power, they can hurt the performance of their teams—but with an important catch. The effects only occur when leaders are actually in a position of power.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding