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  • June 2017
  • Article

Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?

By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Dan A. Iancu and Gerry Tsoukalas
We study the inefficiencies stemming from a firm's operating flexibility under debt. We find that flexibility in replenishing or liquidating inventory, by providing risk-shifting incentives, could lead to borrowing costs that erase more than a third of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Covenants; Risk-shifting; Inventory; Agency Costs; Debt Financing; Risk Management; Borrowing and Debt
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  • 2013
  • Article

The Impact of Electronic Health Record Use on Physician Productivity

By: Julia Adler-Milstein and Robert S. Huckman
To examine the impact of the degree of electronic health record (EHR) use and delegation of EHR tasks on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings.
Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care; Productivity; Healthcare IT; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

improves operating performance. Numerous studies have suggested that the performance of a division, plant, or business unit is improved to the extent that it remains focused on a narrow range of activities. Others have found similar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As a behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

School of Advanced International Studies Dissertation: Essays in Spatial Economics and Development Advisors: Pol Antras , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kriendler Sagar Saxena Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Yale University, Department... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

performance," says Harvard Business School associate professor George Serafeim. To create more understanding about the position, Serafeim wrote the paper "Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?"... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences

Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin & Suraj Srinivasan
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Incentive Power and Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: Evidence from the Field

By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin
There is consensus, both in the literature and in practice, about knowledge sharing within organizations being a key determinant of success. However, organizations struggle to sustain employees’ engagement in knowledge sharing. One challenge lies in the fact that,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Knowledge Sharing; Employee Driven Innovation; Innovation Appropriability; Contract Design; High-powered Incentives; Low-powered Incentives; Incentives; Pay-for-Performance; Rank-and-file; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity; Performance
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  • 2009
  • Case

What People Want (and How to Predict It)

By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

    Earnings Call that get Lost in Translation

    Does the form in which financial information is presented have consequences for the capital markets? The authors examine the level of linguistic complexity of more than 11,000 conference call transcripts from non-US firms between 2002 and 2010.... View Details

    • 19 Jun 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

    The academic study of institutions provides important insights into topics such as job design and health-care reform. But the field is a complex one, and it's not always obvious to outsiders how the intellectual tools of the trade are... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin and research... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • 05 Dec 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

    founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

    giving decision, participants who were randomly assigned to the prosocial spending condition were given the option to opt-out of helping someone else. Instead, they could pick up the cash equivalent of the goody bag at a later date,” Whillans says. “Given that people... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 29 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 29

    Exchange Authors:F. Gino and F. Flynn Publication:Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies show that gift recipients are more appreciative receiving gifts they explicitly request than those they do... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Nov 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Chris Dellarocas, Boston University

    • 13 Aug 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

    The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code weaknesses and protect systems from... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services
    • 10 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Men and Women of the Corporation, published 41 years ago this year, has inspired and informed a generation of scholars studying gender, status, and power. The book is full of insights and concepts that have become... View Details
    Keywords: by Robin J. Ely