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  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • News

Management Matters In Health Care, Too

field. Although they come from very different backgrounds, the three panel members presented a unified view of why management really matters. HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun described her groundbreaking research on the impact of management on hospital View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2008
  • Teaching Note

Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Performance; Groups and Teams; Management Systems; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

significant capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400-inclusion View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

minded people make financially unsound decisions. In one computer lab experiment, for example, Larkin and colleagues showed that participants would perform better on a word search puzzle if they were told that previous participants had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

paid $7 a session and the $3-earning “flexible” participants visited the gym at approximately the same frequency. Not surprisingly, “routine” gym-goers were more likely to exercise within their appointed time slot. After the initial four weeks, when the financial View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

they do like the United States—and leave the issue alone? The answer may lie in determining when, why, and how businesses can thrive by balancing their boards, says Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg, whose research on drivers of individual and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract   Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker
This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Executive Compensation; Rights; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

wanted to be consulted and those on which he would fully trust his managers. He created a task force to review some of the company's key management processes—planning, budgeting, performance evaluation, new product rollout, development of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 23 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and View Details
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

performance of procedures rather than for accurate diagnosis and effective prevention. Aspinall and Hamermesh call for coordinating regulation and reimbursement so that incentives are provided for the right... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

However, app developers’ incentives to innovate are not completely suppressed; rather, they shift innovation to unaffected and new apps. Given many apps already offering similar features, Google’s entry may reduce such social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining how firms respond when their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne