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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
affects its decision to engage in review fraud. Specifically, a restaurant is more likely to seek a positive fake review when its reputation is weak, i.e., when it has few reviews, or it has recently received bad reviews. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
boundaries they need to manage more complex. Importantly it is not the reasons of cooperation or the way they engage in those arrangements that differ; it is the mechanisms behind those arrangements. In explaining these mechanisms, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Sourav Bhattacharya Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input-they engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
others in its industry increase a firm's propensity to engage in practices consistent with the aims of the related social movement. Similarly, in the realm of public politics, threats of state regulations targeted at a firm's industry as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
executives with whom he has successfully worked for decades? Or should he establish a new team with roughly equal representation from both airlines? Parker’s choice will send important signals to employees about the extent to which the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
replacing directors, as they rarely succeed in getting a majority of shareholder support, our results suggest that director turnover takes place following shareholder activism even without shareholder activists engaging in, let alone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) may feel legally constrained... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
prompting a takeover, than at engaging in long-term corporate governance or operating issues. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-004.pdf Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
science, and computing. The mounting evidence is clear: These tools can promote employee collaboration and knowledge sharing across silos. They can help employees make faster decisions, develop more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
papers engaging with these questions empirically should be clear about whether their analyses distinguish between mechanisms behind poorly informed choices and what that implies for the questions they can answer. We present examples from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Management and Davies through a unique recruitment process that raises questions of compensation and employee incentives, negotiation strategy, and human resources management. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
employees who struggle with mental health issues. To engage students in a role-play, the note includes a vignette featuring a struggling CEO. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
the other, but that is not always true. The reasons are partly financial—meaning that by managing your operations well you may be able to eliminate wasteful activity, such as unnecessary hospitalizations. And partly I think that’s because well-managed organizations can... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their organizations to get seriously... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
2000, recovery, Great Recession in 2008, recovery--that it makes trend analysis (and consistent productivity growth) impossible. A related argument is that when labor is relatively cheap, growing companies are encouraged to hire more low-productivity help than train... View Details