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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
named the CEO of the new group and has been tasked with coordinating the diverse activities of the three units to achieve JLL's broader goal of "customer excellence." One of Barge's first actions is to move the account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on Friday. Still, HBS Dean Nitin... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches the Business, Government and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firms, and it was valuable to be able to study growth in a context where growth had to be internally rather than externally funded. Q: Can you tell us about the concept of intangible social resources and how they contribute to a young... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
recipients are not highly paid (regardless of talent), saying that “green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below-median wages (for a given region): Amazon 91%; Facebook 91%; and Google 96%... the GAO (Government View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the International Code... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
payers. For example, an office assistant may order office products to be used by fifty people in a department and paid for by a central accounts payable facility. All these entities are customers. The advice to managers: "Look at all... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in this country have no View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change? Using a cost-based theoretical framework of bundling due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
culminated in the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, which held for about two years before collapsing in the wake of Watergate. The account in this working paper carefully describes—but does not analyze nor draw lessons from—core... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
critical internal processes that will create and deliver the value proposition; and whether the organization has the right people and systems in place and the right culture for its strategy to be successful. Extending the Balanced... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
arrival rate into a congested airport; in an AFP, the FAA uses the same approach to adjust the amount of traffic flying into congested airspace. These two tools account for approximately 30 percent of all air transportation delays,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
effectiveness because people were not accountable to each other for progress, did not have shared understanding of their work, and faced interpersonal risks when reaching out to other roles. The redesign introduced new mesolevel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace