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Placement - Doctoral

Johnson College of Business, Accounting Department Dissertation: Leveraging Culture in Management Control Systems: Evidence From the Field Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Chair), Susanna Gallani , Jonas Heese , and Wei Cai Botir Kobilov... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

feel good for the actor.” Their review, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, examines 15 published, pre-registered experiments on prosocial spending and reveals insights about when giving is likely to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

to deal with the big risks introduced by that decision; and Jim Triandiflou, founder and CEO of Ockham Technologies, who worries about losing control of the company as he and his cofounder consider various financing offers. By engaging in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using U.S. patent and census data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Private Equity and Employment

Keywords: by Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner & Javier Miranda
  • 29 Oct 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Lynn Wu, Wharton

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Overview

Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

Dia&Co as well as their private label business. At Hilma, Nina leverages her expertise launching innovative products in the DTC and retail space, her Harvard MBA, and personal experiences of being raised by two doctors. Nina... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

Driving Corporate Performance

are using powerful performance measurement and management control systems to confront some of today's biggest challenges and opportunities, such as improving employee motivation, using AI and data analytics effectively, and reporting on... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule

    Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details

    • 05 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

    information with others would improve the learning process. Reflection, sharing, and self-efficacy For the first study, the team recruited 202 adults for an online experiment in which they completed a series of brain teasers based on a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We also illustrate how ML methods can illuminate interactions and non-linear effects... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2016
    • Article

    Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China

    By: Juan Ma and Tarun Khanna
    In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e. how they justify such dissent to public... View Details
    Keywords: Independent Directors; China; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; China
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    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

    for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. The HBS Alumni Bulletin recently talked to them about their research. “Around 2005 and 2010, some large-scale, randomized View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
    • 05 Nov 2020
    • Blog Post

    12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

    would I be able to pick up the necessary skills to succeed in a new role and build meaningful relationships with the team and the entrepreneurs? Would I enjoy this experience? I had some previous experience working remotely, but being new... View Details
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    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    care are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care's central tenant is that the overarching principle in redesigning health care... View Details
    • 17 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

    checking accounts. Moreover, these investors are drawn by the lure of potentially higher returns in a “lottery-style payoff” than investors expect with traditional investments. Plus, the COVID-19 stimulus money led new investors to View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand