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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Surveillance capitalism challenges democratic norms and departs in key ways from the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754 May 2015 Frankfurter... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
their jobs and the issues they face. I think we have a good handle on it, but I want to see if we can strengthen our existing database, and determine if there's more to be said through that additional understanding. Part of what this is all about is getting away from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
foster organizations' normative motivations to self-regulate without compromising deterrence. We find that facilities with a demonstrated commitment to compliance are more likely to institutionalize self-regulation. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
prided themselves on their sustainable fishing practices, which were not the historical norm for the industry; here, again, translating these practices into increased willingness to pay was a challenge. As background, the case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories. Such comparability and equivalence of attributes makes it easier for consumers and other market participants to judge the relative value of the goods within the category based on shared assumptions of what is normative for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
was still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (HBS DBA '77), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School's required general management... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course.... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based contracts, we document that,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
and community norms substantially constrain EURid's approach, preventing the use of the most natural economic mechanisms (such as auctions). Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908052 Opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception.... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Many managers interpret Reg FD subjectively, often relying on individual industry norms to decide where to draw the line. Ultimately, the ambiguity of Reg FD leads to considerable variation in the information managers privately provide to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1002/smj.2303/full February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
in data. ML methods also address several issues raised by scholars pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects). We provide a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Author: Michael C. Jensen Abstract There is confusion between integrity, morality, and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
seem to lead them to prefer contexts that are congruent in valence with their mood. High self-monitors on the other hand prefer a context that differs in valence from their mood. It is argued that high self-monitors seek a mood-incongruent context to achieve View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
spectrum are rebels. Rebels are defiant individualists, mavericks who buck every institutional norm in following their inner muse. Rebels are potent figures because they have the confidence to reject what society deems important. A... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls