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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
practices, accounting firms, investment banks, and other professional service organizations, industry veterans DeLong, Gabarro, and Lees show how this model works to: align your firm's culture and key organizational components; satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
documentary vs. comedy), the majority of participants—64.2 percent—still preferred the higher-quality dissimilar choice over the lower-quality similar choice. However, most observers failed to predict their partners’ preference for View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
leaders should understand that an employee’s input can sometimes make the difference between failure and success in a task or project — and managers can and should encourage employees to candidly voice their opinions to bolster both the View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Accounting Review The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how language barriers affect the capital market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
contract types; ii) greater partner integration is associated with higher product quality only in projects that adopt more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts; and iii) in projects where the choice of contract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
by author, album, or genre, and provides a better navigation experience. Digital encoding quality varies widely in p2p networks, but it has continued to improve over the years and in many cases surpasses that of iTunes. The process of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
reallocation accounts for the majority of aggregate productivity gains, suggesting that ignoring this channel could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of gains from multinational production. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Energy Services, while Peter R. Formanek (MBA '68) and his AutoZone cared for car owners in need of quality parts and friendly service. This kaleidoscope of achievement was being replicated by HBS alumni virtually everywhere across the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
was uncomfortable with many of the assumptions being made, because they had a blame-the-victim quality that I didn't like and I didn't identify with. I was trying to speak out about that, and as a sociologist I saw lots of structural... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
necessary? How could he keep people engaged as the nature of the work evolved in some instances to become more predictable? What new systems and processes were needed to ensure a steady output of high quality work? Lebowitz was proud that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=leimgruber%20et%20al.pdf August 2013 Accounting Horizons SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and John C. Coates IV Abstract—We review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
leadership and entrepreneurship; working with investors and consultants; and research and development of new products–represented, in Doriot's view, the core opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders and venture capitalists. Doriot focused on the View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
helped to establish a graphic association with goods. Symbols, such as a sword or an angel, were designed to promote a sense of assurance regarding the quality of a product. Trademarks became valuable legal properties, and the number of... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
subscriptions/memberships? Have you only circulated the notice to acquaintances ones that statistically help form our homogenous social circles? Does your job/role description account for a balance of experience and degrees? Does the role... View Details