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  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Systems of Management Controls on Misreporting

Keywords: by Aishwarrya Deore, Susanna Gallani, and Ranjani Krishnan

    Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache

    Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2013
    • Panel Discussion

    From Per Capita to Pro Capita: Launch of the Social Progress Imperative

    By: Michael E. Porter, Michael Green, Heather Hancock, Judith Rodin, Madhav Chavan and Ngaire Woods
    What is a successful country? The global debate about development has, for decades, been focused on a single, economic measure of success: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita. But this tells us little about the real wellbeing of a nation or its sustainability. What... View Details
    Keywords: Social Progress Index; Country; Measurement and Metrics; Social Issues
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    • Research Summary

    The Impact of ABC on Managerial Decisions

    In this type of research, Ratna Sarkar seeks to determine whether, in fact, new cost systems such as ABC (Activity Based Costing) have a measurable effect on managerial decisions regarding product and customer mix.

    The theory of ABC is now academically established,... View Details

    • September 2015
    • Article

    Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia

    By: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti and George Serafeim
    We study conference calls as a voluntary disclosure channel and create a proxy for the time horizon that senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives'... View Details
    Keywords: Short-termism; Management Styles; Disclosure; Conference Calls; Investing; Earnings Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Style; Forms of Communication
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    • 18 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Cost of Leaning In

    was less than the individual contribution,” Exley explains. “The purpose for that was to create a situation where individuals might plausibly want to negotiate a better agreement.” When workers entered negotiations with their firms, they... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna
    We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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    • August 2014
    • Technical Note

    Conjoint Analysis: A Do it Yourself Guide

    By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia
    Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully employed across a wide variety of industries to quantify consumer preferences for products and services. This technical note is intended to provide... View Details
    Keywords: Market Research; Conjoint Analysis; Consumer Preferences; Segmentation; Product Development; Demand Measurement; Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Markets
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    • 26 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    The Office of Strategy Management

    process in an organization. In most organizations, this process either does not exist or is incomplete. Shareholder value is left on the table. The purpose of an OSM is to unlock unrealized value by making... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 07 Oct 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

    • 27 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrea Pratt, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, Columbia University

    • December 2022
    • Article

    Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?

    By: Jonas Heese
    I study whether industry employment of active regulators weakens oversight. To examine this question, I exploit that the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP), the German capital-market regulator responsible for enforcing public firms’ compliance with accounting... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict-of-interest Policies; Directorships; Enforcement Actions; Industry Employment; Self-regulatory Organizations; Governance Compliance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Conflict of Interests
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    • November 2014
    • Article

    The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993—termed as High Sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Accountability; Reporting; Corporate Governance; Investor Clientele; Investor Communication; Stock Market; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; United States
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    • Blog

    Take Control of Your Personal Brand

    found the idea of a personal brand somewhat alien. The students, though, were convinced that developing a personal brand would help their career development, so I sought out the experts. I came to realize I'd had a lot View Details
    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

    What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
    • 12 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • October 1, 2021
    • Article

    An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

    By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
    Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
    Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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    • 02 Jul 2009
    • Research Event

    Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

    like lack of political will to drive change. Yet amid these formidable barriers, a set of passionate social entrepreneurs are disrupting the status quo in education with innovative and effective approaches... View Details
    Keywords: Education
    • 23 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

    laboratory conditions, she was eager to confirm her findings in a real-world setting. That opportunity came when a Fortune 500 high-tech electronics firm agreed to an in-house study that would measure factors affecting creativity within... View Details
    Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
    • Teaching Interest

    Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

    Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details