Filter Results:
(554)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (554)
- Faculty Publications (145)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (554)
- Faculty Publications (145)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
likely economically motivated to invest in OSS projects that can serve as a complementary asset to vendors' core, proprietary businesses. Download this working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
satisfy the growing American consumer demand for lighting, appliances, and consumer electronics in the 1910s to 1920s as well as in the 1950s and 1960s. GE's top executives have shown a clear understanding of the leadership and managerial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee handbook) includes 100% self-allocated time, no managers (and therefore no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Managerial Economics professor Bing Sung to indicate that some elements of a problem are unknowable and should be recognized as such in our analyses. 1977H. One professor always asked, “Jeremy, who’s going... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
products, hit products typically constitute the lion's share of their choices. Moreover, reminiscent of the "double jeopardy" concept, consumers of obscure products generally appreciate those products less than the more popular products. I discuss View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range of theoretical mechanisms and discuss implications for policy, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
into a very powerful motivating force. In a tough economic environment, when there is little money for bonuses and a lot of concern about layoffs, Katzenbach says it becomes even more important to communicate with employees about the... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
high levels of reserves acts as a hedge against negative external shocks. A quantitative exercise, in which our model matches features of the Brazilian economic fluctuations and exchange-rate volatility, suggests this strategy to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decisions ranging from whom to date to whom to hire. When faced with decisions about disclosure, decision makers should be aware not just of the risk of revealing but of what hiding reveals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50432 in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
(Princeton University Press, 2007). Within five years, business school faculties became specialized along traditional academic disciplines, with particular emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. And that’s largely where they... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country’s future Complete Table of Contents December 2022 Full Court Press With a $1 billion valuation, a group of high-profile investors, an aggressive growth plan, and a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
expanding involvement of households—both as savers and as borrowers—has had an enormous effect on the range of products and services offered. Important changes taking place at all of these levels—in household economic planning, in the... View Details