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  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System Complexity." Implications For Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress, list the challenges it presents in the current environment, and analyze potential policy solutions. Overall, their analysis suggests that the two key issues... View Details
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and Arrangements (1) Agribusiness (7)... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

correlated with performance on political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms experience larger stock price declines following events damaging the Party’s... View Details
  • April 2021
  • Article

Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
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  • 2010
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2010: The Top of Europe Recovering—Regional Lessons from a Global Crisis

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 State of the Region Report, the seventh in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, takes the Region's economic temperature in the first year after the full onslaught of the global crisis. The focus of... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Policy; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries
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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

Fahlenbrach Publication:Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

satisfaction, and performance evaluations. Understanding how fluctuations in stress impact these outcomes can help businesses come up with and initiate targeted solutions to reduce the likelihood of disruption, protect workforce health,... View Details
  • Person Page

Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls." NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

were less likely to appoint a Black teammate to a leadership position, compared with those who weren’t exposed to this research. Those hearing the business case were also less likely to agree that racially diverse teams perform better. In... View Details
Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
  • 08 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • December 5, 2024
  • Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

analysis techniques to solve real-world business challenges and drive informed decision-making. 8 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by September18 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Regression Line Forecasting Interpreting the Regression Output Performing Regression Analyses Forecasting Home Video Units Featured Exercises Identify the best fit line for a data set and interpret its equation through an View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs

By: Raffaella Sadun
The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs across firms. We provide some answers by developing a new survey... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Performance; Outcome or Result; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

key role "in conceptualizing and drafting" significant parts of the final product. Not everyone on the politically divided panel bought into Moss's analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss's views on the need... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services