Filter Results:
(777)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,153)
- People (3)
- News (200)
- Research (777)
- Events (5)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (241)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,153)
- People (3)
- News (200)
- Research (777)
- Events (5)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (241)
Sort by
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
is far more complex. Despite years of social change, the label “bad mother” still looms large for women who struggle with guilt and sense judgment if they’re late to pick up their child from day care. Fathers face their own painful choice... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
organization. But, in the end, it is the strategist who bears the responsibility for setting a firm's course and making the choices day after day that continuously refine that course. That is why strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10057.html August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
these mechanisms in publicly traded companies is widespread throughout the world and in the United States. Understanding how the various mechanisms contribute to the separation between economic ownership and control is important for the individuals who View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
"time" their dissent into a restricted set of socially appropriate circumstances. Dissent is more likely to occur when the chairperson who appointed the independent director has left the board. Dissent also tends to occur at the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
manufacturers to influence prices set by their downstream partners. A MAP policy imposes a lower bound on advertised prices, subjecting violating retailers to punishments such as termination of distribution agreements. Despite this... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54793 Harvard Business School Case 418-026 Babcom: Opening Doors No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-431 The Rise and Rise (?) of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the relation between corporate ownership structure and bank loan syndicate structure using a novel, hand-collected data set on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice: firms should allow consumers and partners to have a real choice between complementary products and services from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
agreements. Set in early 2007, nearly two years after significant modifications in these systems and procedures. Stryker has compiled a remarkable track record of consistently high growth in profitability over more than 20 years. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, No. 141R. Purchase the note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108067 ADR Choices Harvard Business School Note 908-040 Six different business disputes, all in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
someone else who's critical to the deal. Ask these questions: Which prior agreement or agreements among which set of the other players—if such agreements were in place—would maximize the chances of the target saying yes on your terms?... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
thoroughly nasty industry. The saddest thing about it is that it will not put an end to uninvited outbound telemarketing. You'll still get calls from firms you deal with, including those you have no choice but to deal with such as local... View Details