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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

203's 85% threshold to 70%. Like the middle-ground approach on staggered boards, this amendment-to a single number-would also represent good policy: facilitating high-premium offers that attract a supermajority of disinterested shares,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by U.S. state courts over the last... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

How should a company deliver financial news—both good and bad—to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including investors, customers, government, and environmentalists? Energy giants Total and BP have learned best practices through trial and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

Do you have that one friend who seems to snag the coolest, most fashionable shoes, jewelry, or clothes? Now new research shows that when luxury goods companies cater to these trendy consumers by controlling how View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare occasion where estimated fair values of U.S. firms' research and development (R&D) capital based on private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

managing relationships with audiences and advertisers. Provides unique insights into the launch of a network—a rare enterprise—and the associated marketing and branding campaign. Also contains rich television ratings data that can form... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

flexibility to deal with unexpected scenarios or combinations of scenarios. This is important because real crises rarely directly match planning scenarios. If response options aren't flexible and modularized, novel events or combinations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

increases efficiency and makes better goods and services available to citizens across the world. Why then do so many people fight free trade? A primary reason is loyalty to the short-sighted interest of a group. Groups that benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

companies have attempted to renegotiate with Apple to set higher prices for new, more popular content. Our analysis suggests that this may be a bad idea because it is precisely for popular content that p2p is a better substitute for iTunes. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

methods of addressing business-family-ownership tensions can provide some short-term relief but rarely resolve issues and predictably intensify them. Effective governance does not eliminate tensions in family enterprise systems. But it... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

terms, but issues are rarely so clear-cut, Takeuchi says. “This intellectual tradition,” Takeuchi and Nonaka write, “is reflected in the debates over dualism—such as mind versus body, subject versus object, rationality versus empiricism,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

smoothly. Your departure may be more challenging if you’ve had an irreparable row with your boss, have been subject to harassment and are filing a claim, or if you’re leaving on short notice to join a competitor. But even in these cases, you’ll want to maintain View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

research confirms observations that women start more companies than men, but rarely grow them as large. Based on his earlier research, these results also resonated with Tim Butler: “When it comes to self-rating on finance skills, women... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

for ways to increase their value to a firm. Acknowledge blind spots. Rarely does bad behavior stem from just a single source. Consider the system and others who might be at fault. Be aware that unethical behavior often becomes more... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

uniquely tailored to that person. But there may be another reason. In the field of business, there is rarely an insight or idea that is entirely new. And yet, many great ideas that have been around for a long time have still not been... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and furloughs? "It gave us a rare... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

purchase intent while the latter is not. Publisher's link: http://www.affdex.com/assets/Entertainment-effects-on-Purchase-Funnel.pdf August 2013 Columbia FDI Perspectives Government-held Equity in Foreign Investment Projects: Good for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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