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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
and the western lab benefiting from that," Choudhury says of the findings. "It illustrates the mobility of human capital leading to knowledge transfer." Patents Without Pirates But the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling performance against projections.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Papers The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
intellectual capital was drained" —Reynold Levy Levy, who was a senior lecturer at HBS before he took the Lincoln Center job, has stayed committed to the institution's funding base—the fiercely dedicated baby boomers who have... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence of skill and exit style differences even among venture partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and business conditions in the U.S. will deteriorate if there's no change in direction. The authors examine how fiscal policy relates to the three drivers of productivity: improving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
accountability of financial reporting practice in the broader capital market system, he explains. "We can use some of the insights of these 30 years of research to study this much broader, much more difficult subject, which is... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
a way for managers to balance the analytical side of their work with the human side and find a sound way forward when analysis falls short. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50601 forthcoming Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-039.pdf Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
opportunities that they did have. The relative inflexibility has crept in since the 1970s—and not just for reasons internal to the company. The second reason is that they had the human capital, knowledge, and skills to take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy Cuddy Abstract—This paper investigates whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2025
- Background Note
Skills-First Talent Management: The Importance of Managers
By: Boris Groysberg, Nicole Zelazko, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, Izzy Yeoh and Colleen Ammerman
This note supplements a 2025 series on skills-first talent management in organizations, comprising “Skills-First Talent Management: Hiring” (HBS No. 425-019), “Skills-First Talent Management: Onboarding, Development, and Performance Management” (HBS No. 425-020), and... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
this model of human capital as a portfolio of skills, and asks which of four candidates for a job is likely to possess the most portable skills. The frequency with which workers move in teams suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace