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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
world. Among economic scholars, field research often takes place within the walls of corporations, non-profits, small businesses, or government entities. Ideally, these organizations eventually can apply the findings of the research View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
world's leading iron mining company. Regulatory obstacles and unexpected costs have placed the project in jeopardy. Outside Brazil, however, Baosteel has been growing rapidly, and market trends favor an overseas plant. Baosteel must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
regulations in place for capital requirements for banks. Irwin Greff, President and CEO of the Southeast Bank, faces several decisions on how to proceed with these new policies that will surely shape the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
implementation that we forget why we are here in the first place . 'Why' is just as important as the 'How'; they are not mutually exclusive." As Nari Kannan put it, "To survive and thrive, I think companies need View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for bidders View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
culture and to protect organizationally powerful groups—in our case, men and the firm’s leaders—and in so doing sustain workplace inequality. Due to the social defense, two... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
addition to CEOs. Importantly, if the committees wanted to weaken incentive pay to get more truthful reporting, diluting the CFO's bonus and stock options would be one View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
being in second place, it’s a pretty good place to be.” Consumers end up paying more To study how pricing algorithms affect competition, MacKay and Brown collected detailed... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
press governments to allow space for business to work and innovate. The tenet of predictability is vital, said Wagle. "If people are going to invest in very bad... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
than ever before, says Paine. And boards now have the responsibility of continuously monitoring the culture and staying ahead of problems. “If you’re on a board, you should be asking: ‘Do we have adequate mechanisms in place View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish