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  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate resources to mitigate them, and bring clarity to the value trade-offs and moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

are allocated to respond. The dilemma: Create a response that is neither overreaction (threat) nor insufficient (opportunity). In this excerpt from their Harvard Business Review article, Harvard Business School professors Clark Gilbert... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

evidence on a key mechanism: how employees allocate their time to work-related activities and to visiting distant family. To do so, we use field interviews, sub-sample analyses, and micro-data on the number of optional skill-development... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

innovations. Ceteris paribus, the share of resources spent on development of general innovations, increases with the stability of the market share of the industry leader. As market shares become less persistent, the model predicts an endogenous shift in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

do not receive capital allocations for building or leasing facilities, which represent significant start-up and recurring costs. They must either reduce what they spend on teaching and learning or secure... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

questions still remained: Was Promesa and the Oversight Board the best method to assist the island in fiscal recovery? Was the Board’s fiscal plan an acceptable approach? Would the island be able to regain access to capital markets and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of IP address and assuring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Class Acts

efforts also led to the creation of an office that offers students information and support services. He has also been active in the restructuring of campus concessions to better capture and allocate value throughout the student community.... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

international awards. How could the company capitalize on this success? Should Grace expand its operations to multiple Chinese provinces? Should Grace continue as a premium boutique winery serving a growing but ultimately limited niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

versus those where the LP has some discretion. Of the roughly 5,500 distinct investments made by the LPs in our sample, 32% of investments (17% of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Navigating Climate Risk After LA's Wildfires: Experts Weigh In | Working Knowledge

but also highly livable and equitable, proving that sustainability and affordability can go hand in hand. Leverage AI for smarter urban planning and resource allocation . Artificial Intelligence is already transforming urban planning, and... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

resource allocation within the group. In this way, the results are consistent with models where firm interlocks facilitate coordination across firms and are also consistent with models where relationships affect View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years after Professor Chandler's retirement, that tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s local circumstances. Our research site switched from its traditional decentralized hiring model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level Two influence labor force participation at Level One. In conclusion, we integrate practical implications from these two bodies of literature to propose... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace