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- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
those numbers,' don't be shocked if people forget the first message. You need to be clear about penalties even as you are clear about goal setting. You want a healthy setting between those." View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
constructive agreement. As disagreement and conflict intensify, sophisticated negotiators should expect biased perceptions, both on their own side and the other side. Less seasoned players tend to be shocked and outraged by perceived... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
City, a metropolis reeling from the shock of the horrible events of 9/11 and facing enormous economic and cultural challenges. Bloomberg led the city back to its feet and through the financial crisis that began in 2008. His focus on... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
students relying on Pell Grants to meet their college expenses, these institutions are at higher risk of financial shocks and are often under-resourced [2]. They are framed as lesser than by some college counselors, and ivy league... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Course MaterialsAirbus A380—Turbulence Ahead Harvard Business School Case 609-041 Multiple delays of the Airbus A380 have shocked analysts and investors alike. What are the causes of these delays and how should investors respond to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
grenade, which is a very unsophisticated weapon, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, where you can't get around easily. And so to be in the right place at the right time with that kind of a weapon system, it just wasn't making sense. Morrell: After the View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
recent past. Q: What are you working on now? A: On a variety of projects related to building models to analyze economic fluctuations in environments where technology is endogenous. By taking seriously technology, my models generate much more persistent responses to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
confidential information about McKinsey clients he served to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam. The McKinsey Partners were shocked and dismayed by the actions of Kumar, as well as the recent allegations against Gupta and were closely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
When you become an entrepreneur, a woman entrepreneur, you basically are entering the single digits club, and it's a shock. It was a shock to me to go to meetings or dinners or whatever the case may be and just constantly be surrounded by... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
first started attending its public meetings, he says, the lawyers and lobbyists in the room were shocked when he told them he was just “a private citizen concerned about a long-term collapse of the US electric grid.” An attorney told... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
matter? Examining firms with standard long-run measures of corporate governance as they are shocked by plausible misvaluation, we provide consistent evidence that firm performance is impacted by governance when firms become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
greater explicitness. But the economic shock of 2008 appears to have caused many directors to reconsider what their boards had been doing and to question whether they could or should be acting differently. "I really do think it's time for... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
another company. This came as a shock to the CEO, who, despite nixing the ad campaign, had been quite impressed with the other elements of the marketing program and the thoroughness with which they had been planned. What he had failed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
infringing on the NPEs' patents. We support these predictions using a novel, large dataset of patents targeted by NPEs. We show that NPEs on average target firms that are flush with cash (or have just had large positive cash shocks). Furthermore, NPEs target firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
information disclosure. If shocked at the start, respondents would let their guard. The researchers found that participants were more likely to divulge personal information if the questions were presented in decreasing order of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
are characterized by a sequential mode of production where goods are produced in a series of stages in different countries by vertical specialists who pass them across borders to the next firm in the value chain. Shocks like this ripple... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty