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  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

transactions and vice versa. This paper examines how service quality, competition, and poverty are related to demand and inventory (of electronic credit and physical cash) where, in this setting, service quality consists of pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

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firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of closeness with others, results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-061.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsProntoWash: Washing the World's Cars to a Tango Beat Harvard Business School Case 108-037 ProntoWash management considers whether franchising and the Balanced Scorecard could be combined to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2025
  • Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber
In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Investment Activism; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Netherlands; Norway
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  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

want to dive into some of these subjects in more depth you can. Two animating ideas guided me: What are the most interesting, engaging, and telling stories of the last 150-plus years of business? How could I relate them to readers in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to the intellectual property and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Robert Livingston (Northwestern), and Peter Glick (Lawrence University) spoke on the subject "Backlash and the Double Bind." One anecdote from Cuddy's presentation on the ways race and employment status affect how society judges mothers, resonated with many... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

issues relating to fostering innovation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

Advanced Media—MLB's digital arm—is facing a number of decisions related to its "app" for Apple's new iPad. What are the best name, price, and set of features for MLBAM's iPad app? The case describes what is often seen as one of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

crises, the Dasheng cotton mills became a state-owned enterprise in 1953. In the wake of the economic reforms, the successor to the original Dasheng Enterprise was restructured as the Jiangsu Dasheng Co. Ltd. in 1996. Issues of corporate governance, legal environment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

deconstruction of gender inequality in organizations. Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak Up Authors:J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007) Abstract In a word—self-preservation. And... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

following supplements to the main text: (i) additional facts regarding the size and concentration of the CDS market; (ii) some analysis relating buyer and seller capital to the CDS-bond basis; (iii) a discussion and some support evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

investment have increased vastly over the last decade, making many people richer. But the problem is that the process has not really been global enough. In fact, some two billion people today live in countries that are actually becoming less globalized: Trade is... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting-based characteristics—book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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