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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
talented and more risk-averse managers, and these managers work less hard, earn less, and display lower job satisfaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-073.pdf Equity-Debtholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
addressed for a complete understanding of the moral mind. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52263 in press Academy of Management Perspectives Bounded Ethicality and Ethical Fading in Negotiations:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
at the end of the day, we are a principles-based society rather than a rules-based society, even though rules and referees are important. Enron's senior management straddled many gradations of ethical and legal behavior. At one end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns and trading volume at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Cuddy, operating a relatively large device inspires more assertive behavior than working on a small one. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons learned in these countries informed the design and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
and deeply the tax system impacts our lives. If you think about poverty, we now try to address it largely through the tax system via the earned income tax credit. You think about low-income housing, we do that through the tax system. If... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
the next seven years, which translates into significantly higher accumulated earnings and lower unemployment benefits,” according to the study. By 2015, the researchers found, workers from beneficiary firms were still View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
organizations that provide the content—that is, the sports leagues themselves. "It took Wyc a few years and a $2 billion deal with Comcast to realize that he didn't own a basketball team as much as he owned a media company," Higgins says. The fund's investors... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
have more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Further, relative to adjacent periods, the evidence is concentrated in the two calendar quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election, consistent with heightened incentives for firms to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses-is a recipe for failure, according to the authors. Meanwhile, CEOs spend too much time on managing today's... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
The Wall Street Journal. We find no evidence that compensation is related to earnings forecast accuracy. But consistent with prior studies, we find analyst turnover to be related to forecast accuracy, suggesting that analyst forecasting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
can write whatever they want about growth in their strategy or annual report, but top management responds to the capital market's need for quarterly earnings, and it turns out that quarterly earnings drive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace