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- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in short of projections, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
profiled performed during the recession? A: All the companies I studied, with one exception, outperformed their peers. Their share price declined less at a time when everyone else's declined greatly, and now they're prospering again. They... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
women CEOs, too. The growth rate of women-owned businesses is three times the amount for all businesses. But that's not enough. It still feels that compensation, influence, and opportunity flow more freely to men. Gender sterotypes still wall off women from some View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of directors, and to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54596 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract— We examine whether and to what extent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
described by Levy. Finally, a "culture of maybe" exists when companies are highly analytical, yet also quite uncomfortable with ambiguity. They go to great lengths to gather more information and to perform additional formal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the decision facing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
TripIt: The Traveler's Agent Harvard Business School Case 809-059 In July 2008, the co-founders of TripIt, a free online travel organizer that aggregated travelers' bookings from many top travel websites, had recently secured $5.1 million... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which are moving toward results measurement and integrated practice unit structures. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a top down, big bang, government-led... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
emissions in many settings in which it would otherwise fail to do so. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42912 Toxic Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a strong focus in past research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
place them in a readily available collective. Paramedics are a telling example given the costly implications of malpractice in the United States. Paramedics are supposed to bring patients to attending physicians (most often in emergency rooms) and are not supposed to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
"setup" of a negotiation itself—its parties, their interests, their no-deal options, the sequence and basic process choices or design-into the realm of strategic and tactical choice. Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
School Case 515-090 Target Stores: The Hunt for 'Unvolunteered Truths' No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-058 Generating Higher Value at IBM (A) This case analyzes IBM's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
prices lower than $5. Researchers then compared companies’ book-to-market values with four alternative valuation ratios they designed: sales-to-price, gross-profit-to-price, net payouts-to-price, and a composite ratio. The researchers found that although these ratios... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne