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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
more likely to return to work when initial socialization focused on personal identity as compared to a focus on organizational identity or a control condition. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these relationships. We call... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She has focused extensively on international capital flows, foreign... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
tells HBS Working Knowledge. "Indeed, if you paid your suppliers more slowly they'd almost certainly pay their suppliers more slowly, which would have the desired effect. "You have no control, and yet you have full control... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
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women was the power to control their own money and time. Koehn quoted Josephine Baker, a factory worker who, in 1847, wrote, "The money we earn comes promptly and comes to us. When we are finished we feel perfectly free until the time to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband technology. Therefore, only the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective disclosure, constrained the use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
policies; others maintain that circumstances beyond the government's control had placed the country in an unsustainable situation, and that the successful renegotiation opens up new opportunities. The case presents the story of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
as successful. Ron Kurtz (MBA ’67) Miami, FL Private-Equity Lessons Don’t Apply Professor Malcolm Salter’s article “Enron’s Legacy” in the December issue seems to offer an “if pigs had wings” analysis of Enron’s board of directors problem. Obviously, if Enron had been... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
is left with no choice but to do so.) Nevertheless, there is slow and I believe inexorable movement in the direction of a WDC, because it makes sense for all concerned. It will take time but it will happen. Just the other day the CEO of a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Direct Reports? Authors:Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne