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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
without asking them to leave their families and companies for extended periods. We actually prefer for them to stay working at their jobs so they can leverage their networks and influence in the company to assist our partner... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
that events had forced this country's institutions to depart significantly from their preferred ideology of individualism. Furthermore, he called on them to manage more effectively the new ideology toward which they had drifted, which he... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking. Some people View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Harvard Business School Case 517-090 Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople Through the Sales-Force Compensation Plan No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its interests determines whether a zone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
the issue in a new research paper, "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior," in which they distinguish between two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
through the 1960s. Combining Equal Sacrifice with Utilitarianism better represents the preferences that people hold in the population at large, according to Weinzierl, and makes the theory's recommendations align much better with the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
sustainable choices? What are the challenges that you've faced? What has been surprising? That's a very common tension and I prefer not to think about this as an ‘either-or’ type of decision but rather as two ends of a spectrum, both of... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
any economy: Ownership shapes the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers, grants access and control over capital and resources, and mediates the governance of economic enterprises. Despite its centrality, the topic of... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
of countries has its own fascination. That's why we prefer to think about a cross section of countries and understand what is similar and different. We focus on many different emerging markets to develop a theory that spans all emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
Turkasset began opening physical branches around the country to service customers who preferred to talk in person. Despite these additional outlays, the gamble paid off for the company by allowing it to collect a much higher percentage of... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
with a comparison of two different systems under which he worked, preferring pay for performance "based on my direct impact on profit, relationship with my client, project team performance and development of individual members of my... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett