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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
European economy. Firm-level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive, on average, controlling for country and industry fixed effects, as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
committee be independent and financially literate, and that at least one have accounting or equivalent experience. The audit committee chairman should have this experience and the leadership to insist on full and complete discussions.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to ownership structures that allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
their products listed on top, is that a good thing or a bad thing? It just depends on which side you’re looking from,” says Lakkaraju. The coffee machine experiment The study involves a hypothetical search for an “affordable” new coffee... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
and management. We develop a step-by-step roadmap that illustrates how to use four ML methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design and building project. A number of companies are developing... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
control so no problems are hidden." But recent research proves the virtue of letting employees do at least some work unobserved. In a series of studies, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article engages in a methodological View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
examples of successful and failed leaders, with stories to illustrate their experiences and the author's advice to readers who may face similar crises. Purchase this book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
status quo—but his cure is a government-run system, I gather from hearsay. I agree with the diagnosis, but my cure is, yes, everybody should have health insurance, but they should control it for themselves. It should be run by the people,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
material, as well as less-tangible benefits. What is the balancing act needed to sustain gray zones? A: Using the above example of paramedics, what is gained and lost? Obviously, some level of organizational control is lost because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50189 Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile By: Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
wholly owned enterprise. Hesse must prepare his recommendation to the management team, which includes owners Jim and Debby Sharpe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807118 PublicationsRemedying Education: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
a Chinese migrant, it might be more important to go back home during the Chinese New Year, rather than during the December break.” Although the study was able to exploit the random assignment of workers to different locations, thus... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz