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24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Bird, Yanhua Z., Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

make you feel less safe by making you conscious of just how much you are giving away? A new working paper finds that it’s more likely to be the latter. “Even if a privacy policy is meant to be assuaging, it can prime you to think about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

someone who works in London, for instance, to attend our program in Mumbai. It will let them be in a different environment and build different relationships." View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

which we take collaboration to the level of megacommunities from the private and public sectors working together to solve large-scale social problems." Others, including Jay Somasundaram, wonder about the relative roles of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

consider showing up for work?" Bill Bittner observed that, "Those boards that recognize the need for change early can use the existing talent to make it happen, and save both money and careers." Anshu Vats said, " . . . unless we can transform the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

and suppliers in its fast-growing market, and to facilitate possible acquisitions. Prior to jointly founding IWA, the three had worked in management consulting and investment banking: each, however, did have substantial experience with... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

“If you have an investor who is very checklist-minded, you want to very quickly show your IP and your product prototype, and then as they become more comfortable, work on developing that chemistry,” Huang says. For a syncopated investor,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

implementation or a voluntary opt-in/opt-out approach that would enable researchers to make causal inferences. "It's important for everyone who has a stake in the US economy to realize how these laws are being made and to assess whether they are View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

shift too much power to unions and special interest groups, and that highly experienced directors might not want to serve on a board if they had to work alongside shareholder-sponsored candidates. In addition, shareholders would be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

number of the recent high-tech firms that have issued stock to the public. Insiders still rule. A minimum of required committee work is done. And investors seem not to have been too concerned about governance, given the meteoric... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

we can design and manage our most imminent environments—our neighborhoods, may they be of physical, social, or intellectual nature—to best support knowledge creation, diffusion, and performance outcomes. About the author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Professor Robin Greenwood... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

of perfect information." Among the suggestions for managers were these: Help "data analyzers consume and translate the data" (Scott Kemme, who also suggested an alternative title for the column, which I instead used above), Know "what not to look at." (Phillip Clark)... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

Working PapersSome Neglected Axioms in Fair Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

challenges, not on the hard work of winning hearts and minds, Shapiro ultimately lost his company. He was forced to sell Monsanto to Pharmacia-Upjohn, which bought it for its pharmaceutical division, valuing the agricultural biotechnology... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

Rather than imposing a top-down solution, as managed care vainly tried to do, consumer-driven health care would work from the bottom up, enabling providers and patients jointly to create better, cheaper ways to deliver care. The essential... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in them. Haley House launched the... View Details