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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
maintaining a supply network for a global pandemic response initiative. Managing supply is particularly challenging for three reasons. First, demand for stockpile quantities is spiky and uncertain, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
http://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6820/Socios%20o%20acreedores%20ENG%202-25-15%20web.pdf?sequence=1 March 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies consumer response to information disclosure and a disclosure design with improved salience—a consumer alert. We find score posting is effective, but... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers, as well as who, within the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
impact of rankings on application decisions. When explicit rankings of colleges are published in U.S. News, a one-rank improvement leads to a 1-percentage-point increase in the number of applications to that college. Second, we show that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-054.pdf Management Practices Across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
faced a uniquely challenging combination of home and host country political risk. This article reviews the company's responses to these adverse circumstances, challenging the prevailing literature that interprets so-called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
environment often demands a team approach to problem solving. This requires a leader who, among other things, is comfortable sharing power and generous in doing so, is able to see extraordinary potential in ordinary people, and can make... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
responsibility for securing these materials. Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the technical features of the system and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
task force to interview 250 key staff about the company's strengths and barriers to achieving a new direction. This engagement enabled our leaders to: forge demanding goals to which people were committed; create a community of shared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
partners in accomplishing go-to-market goals, two important aspects of channel management—assessing performance and setting goals—are only weakly developed and enforced. Misunderstandings of partner roles and responsibilities are common.... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that promote demand for quality... View Details