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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
list began in 1955. The figures are only slightly better beyond the corner office. According to a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, a percentage... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
likely as younger children to assign themselves the good prize by reporting winning the coin flip more than chance would dictate. Overall, the results of these experiments suggest that as children grow older they become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
auctions into VCG position auctions. We require that accepting the mediator services and reporting honestly to the mediator, will form an ex post equilibrium, which satisfies the following rationality condition: an agent's payoff can’t be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a trillion dollars in bribes is paid... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
structures do they use? What works, and what doesn't? First and perhaps most important, [Bradley] had the leaders of all the breakthrough projects report to a single executive. We discovered that some companies have actually been quite... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked,... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
to materialize. In 2014, Amazon had recorded a net loss of $241 million on revenues of $89 billion, in stark contrast to China’s leading Internet player Alibaba, which reported $3.9 billion of net income on revenue of $12.3 billion. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
"For several years, the cover of one conglomerate's annual report actually bore the legend '2+2=5' in large type under the company's name. They wanted you to believe that the firm's value was greater than... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
parties, music events, knitting circles, culinary demonstrations, and other events. Several stores Raffaelli visited reported staging over 500 events a year. “Bookstores have always been a place where people could convene and have a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
story showed the difference in pay, benefits, and career opportunities that can result from outsourcing. A woman cleaning floors for Kodak 35 years ago had a variety of benefits—paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, and an annual bonus... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-071 For the past eighteen months, Mandy Cabot had worried that the shoe business she had built into a thriving operation with $90 million in annual revenue and over 110 employees might instead be a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
advertisers. The power of this technology, which is called DART (for dynamic advertising reporting and targeting), lies in its dynamic capacity to target, deliver, and measure the performance of ads. When surfers are visiting DART-enabled... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from 5 to 45 gigawatt-hours, or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Treadwell Illustration by Jeff Smith A thirty-year resident of Alaska, Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) is chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The commission, which reports to the President and Congress, sets direction for the U.S.... View Details