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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for much of the last several decades—and it’s hard to argue that a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
brother and cousin, that forms the Office of the President at Loews' Manhattan headquarters. Among his primary responsibilities are watching over several major real estate investments and working closely with the CEOs of several... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
preclude considering the option of knocking down and starting all over again if that's what is best for the business ... (but) Kaplan & Foster [authors of the book] seem to be recommending destruction for its own sake." Readers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
midst of emerging ideas and to provide support and momentum for ideas that are a little ahead of their time. By being at the leading edge of the movement, we can have real influence, bringing not just management thinking and View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50101 Harvard Business School Case 715-449 TAV Airports Holding (A) This case explores the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog
entrepreneurs like Yvonne Hao of PillPack and Charles Curran of Armored Things, and many others with wisdom to share. Q: How will the course be different due to Covid-19? A: The course has now returned to meeting in person, with a Zoom View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Traditional capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
preparation offices were given the option to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds in addition to existing Block savings products. The fraction of filers who did any savings at the tax-site was 8.5 times higher at these treatment sites offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=norton%20apfelbaum%202013.pdf August 2013 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The Cheater's High: The Unexpected Affective Benefits of Unethical Behavior By: Ruedy, N.E., C. Moore, F. Gino, and M. Schweitzer... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
years before HBS working at AppNexus in New York City. While working as an engineer Damjan never lost sight of his ultimate goal: to found and grow a business. “I was curious to work at a startup on the front lines, and I enjoyed being in that View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
women in the country, so we're very excited about it. “I've never been an entrepreneur. And it wasn't until after HBS that I really seriously looked at entrepreneurship as being a real option for myself. So... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund," Charles Broming expressed the hope that "money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman