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- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Depression? By: Nanda, Ramana, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom: Examining Activist Types and Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger to society. As a result, these... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
other, and whether he could open as many offices as the firm needed. "When I looked at my watch and realized that it was 10:00 p.m. and that I had been sitting on the bench for two hours, I knew something had to give," he... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
novelty but are meaningfully reduced by the publication of objective regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry strategies and find that small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
owners or managers of small businesses, whereas NABE respondents generally work at larger firms and were not owners. “The pandemic has brought about tremendous changes, and we couldn’t have anticipated the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
http://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/ar/1 2006 The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics By: Brookfield,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
cases of downsizing price increases, firms have chosen to maintain the sticker price of a product, but have reduced the quantity contained in that product. Thus, a tin of coffee stays $2.99, but shrinks from 14.5 ounces to 13 ounces, for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2015). Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Seeking a Path to Trust,” The New York Times, November 12, 2019. Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta, The Power of Trust:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
small business, for-profit management experience, her reputation was built in the nonprofit world. How would Frances Hesselbein’s style of leadership fare in today’s world? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below.... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials should shift to rewarding View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
employees," says Sadun. In extrapolating from the data, Sadun cautions the sample size used in the study was relatively small (though exponentially bigger than any past research on the topic), and that the results of the study... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
gain access to workers' compensation data. Because the data were collected at the company level, the researchers limited their analysis to firms with only one plant, where the effects of an inspection on injury rates and costs could be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
average price to bring a new high-risk medical device to market. That extra cost can dampen the ability of companies to pursue new innovations. Indeed, Stern found that small firms (defined as non-publicly... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
suggest most accounting errors aren't the result of fraud. Rather, it is unconscious bias that is to blame. Here is a look at those biases, and how they can escalate from a small error of judgment to a big financial nightmare.Rooting out... View Details