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  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk-reduction instrument. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer Abstract—Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt them and a well-developed understanding of how they work-remains incomplete. In this paper, we suggest that competitively significant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2025 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce will be hurt. Further, we hypothesize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program manager at Adobe and responsible for coordinating the integration of her business unit's product—Device Central—in Creative Suite 3. Murray is copied on an email that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

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 their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

not-for-profit educational and research institute that will bring together higher-ambition leaders from around the world to learn from each other's experience. It will also offer leadership development programs for the next generation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
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Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive to have a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

School Publishing) Public and philanthropic dollars are not enough to address global issues of poverty and disease, but innovative finance can bring governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources to bear on the common good. Keohane argues that innovative finance... View Details