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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
rising stock market. Another was the use of stock options—because options are so complex, they can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households' stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the books" as necessary to View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
the organizational structures and routines for accountability, collaboration, and initiative. External confidence: This is confidence that external stakeholders, based on their positive expectations produced by the previous three levels... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And then you’ve got to View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; and (4) some of these characteristics can help investors earn superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
sorts of things. JH: Estes agreed to move across the street to a parcel of land the county acquired, where the county would build a new structure the same size as their former building. In exchange, the county received the former Estes... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the relationship between ownership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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only. This course seeks to explore the theory, history, and state structures of capitalism; examine its manifestations in several national contexts; and understand the ways in which systemic changes to market capitalism are likely to both... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
by the financial sector, a possible housing bubble, and an approaching referendum on Scotland's independence. Moreover, many claimed the UK was at risk of secular stagnation, a slowdown in economic growth caused by a structural deficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
role as co-CEO of Birchbox (Beauchamp continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Fellow at HBS, were fortunate to have access to the family leadership and archives of the Koç group through the intervention of the late former Dean of the School, John H. McArthur, who sat on the Board of the holding company. The career... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
in a two-sided market. We compile a unique and comprehensive dataset using sales data from the U.S. daily deal market and specify a structural model based on Nash bargaining solutions. We find that Groupon, the larger deal platform, has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
modularity," analyzing the case of SugarCRM. The modular architecture of this platform software is aligned with its intellectual property structure in such a way that the firm can derive, from the same code tree, an open source... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that this idea holds true literally at the World Bank, where the 24 countries serving on the Board of Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
accessible to your entire organization This will need to happen both in structured and unstructured ways as much as you can. Create open office hours or lunch-and-learns for team members other than your direct reports to get time with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A replicating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace