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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
likely to dissent, we do not find that academics, accountants, and lawyers are significantly more active in dissenting. Lastly, we show that dissent is consequential to the director and the firm. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know this, crowding a Hawes Hall... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Relationships across these lines, unless managers make an active effort otherwise, are less likely to be developmental. People on both sides are hesitant if not afraid to take risks for fear of inviting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
be a useful factor for me when considering which businesses to support with my consumer and investment dollars." In short, Mohan's dad was clearly not the only consumer who cared about executive pay. But... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
employees will actually listen to tough messages, question old assumptions, and consider new ways of working. This means taking a series of deliberate but subtle steps to recast employees' prevailing views and create a new context for... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
boundaries for the group's activities; and managing the tensions inherent in group life—deciding, for example, when to be supportive and when to be confrontational, when to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
schedule at HBS for the first time in years. Such companies, he added, are confident that their compensation packages, opportunities, and support systems rival newer, hotter companies. Larger companies... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find that advertising agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
encouraging open discussion of uncertainty, confusion, and mistakes and supporting learning across disciplinary boundaries. This lens on positive identity and collaboration exposes new opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
of their activities across countries and industries are of central importance to this volume. In addition, contributors consider how environmental factors of individual economies, such as market regulation, government subsidies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
innovations that improve health and reduce the need for more care or more complex care. In the United States, employers may need to contract directly with providers if health plans are slow to modify their flawed contracting practices.... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those arguing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett