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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
reputation over time. Second, it is consistent in always delivering the same message. Third, it distinguishes between the company's performance and the impact of a changed environment by highlighting the indicators that are under its... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
countries, but by firms realizing a higher spread (i.e., a greater difference in operating performance and borrowing cost) when more domestic credit is available. Also, we find that firms partially substitute trade credit for financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
just a US phenomenon. The proportion of jobs devoted to services has shown gains in both more and less developed economies for decades. We found that the US does not have a monopoly on great service leaders or best practices in service... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
indicators but also focus on current cash flow and performance of the small businesses using a broad array of traditional and nontraditional data sources. The new lenders generally fall into three categories. The first wave of tech-based... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs." Case in point is her research on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
going into the job, a huge handicap that leads to poor foreign policy. Our leaders assume that the U.S. model of business and governance is ideal, with some small adjustments, for all countries and that our job is to go forth and remake... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
designing various auction processes that treat differently the questions of what is bought, from whom, and at what price. "In order to try to re-liquefy the markets, get some price discovery and begin to understand what these assets are worth. It is a big View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective commitment, as well as valuable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
for the decade after World War II because wartime destruction led to excess demand, which limited competition as firms rushed to expand capacity. Given the enormous job of rebuilding Europe and much of Asia, it was not until the late... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of Individual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
understand all the communications protocols and the way everything fit together. There was a time when that became less important in the whole server era, but now it's happening with the Web. In order to get performance out of the Web,... View Details