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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing, and living their lives. As... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

origins of the social psychology of creativity, trace its arc, and suggest directions for its future. Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation Authors:Cynthia Barnhart, Douglas S. Fearing, Amedeo Odoni, and Vikrant Vaze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and other providers to build their telepsychiatry programs and meet the needs of under-served populations. “Our support allows patients to see providers remotely over video conferences,” he says. To help clinics meet surging... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

banks, both large and small, from ever fully returning to the small business market. Cyclical Factors Linger From The Recession In the recent recession small-business sales were hit hard and may still be soft, undermining their demand for... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

workers demanded higher pay and better working conditions and health benefits. U.S. Steel responded with a core public relations objective to “tell the public the true facts about working conditions and labor policies in operating plants,... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

more modular than the product from the tightly coupled organization. We measure modularity by capturing the level of coupling between a product's components. The magnitude of the differences is substantial-up to a factor of six, in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

would serve for three years, from 2012 to early 2015, leading the country through some of the worst years of the crisis. His government was tasked with implementing the austerity measures demanded by its... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

companies have a sense of mission enabling them to deliver what their customers want in a way that is significantly better than the competition. As a formula for the future, it brings together the necessity of financial success shareholders View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

"lean," capacity-constrained firms. As demand varies, the industry switches between symmetric and asymmetric phases, generating predictions for firm size and costs across the business cycle. Surprisingly, increasing available... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Kash Rangan

estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur disutility from information disclosure. This, in turn, benefits the firm providing an additional source of revenue but reduces consumer demand for the service. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2020
  • News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho... View Details