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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
organization to pursue the direction. This is appropriate because managerial techniques are being spread fast by imitation, adoption, and MBA education. Administrative techniques were generalized around the world decades ago. So what is... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Abstract This paper decomposes the excess return predictability in inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds into effects from liquidity, market segmentation, real interest rate risk, and inflation risk. We estimate a large and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Next Guides to Archival Collections Guides to Archival Collections Lawrence Henderson Papers Online finding aid Lawrence Joseph Henderson established the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations
didn’t shake hands out of concern for spreading their germs, the other party was more likely to cooperate.) Sometimes people enter negotiations and withhold a handshake as a power play. But unless a negotiation is “all or nothing,” it is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
of wisdom and many others were made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his 1758 essay known as The Way to Wealth, first published as a sermon delivered by “Father Abraham” in Poor Richard’s Almanack. “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
to innovate in the climate space, and shares his advice for those interested in careers in business and climate. Beyond Net Zero: How Seventh Generation Plans to Achieve Real Zero Carbon Ashley Orgain, chief impact officer at Seventh... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
There was an effective agitation; the movement came at the right time—a time when the world was screaming that we needed a different financial system. But there was a lack of innovation. And we ended up coming back to a system that is quite a bit like what we had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
reserves when investing in bonds of lower ratings. Ratings are also used in private contracts, for example to define the investment objectives of bond mutual funds. Ratings are a concise and well-understood metric of credit quality. Ratings firms View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
you have a major industry that still has lots to reveal. We asked Jones to discuss his research and his new book. Sean Silverthorne: What inspired your interest in the beauty business and its history? Geoffrey Jones: My initial View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
and managers alike face unprecedented obstacles every day. In March and early April, as COVID-19 spread worldwide, a study by Mind Share Partners in partnership with Qualtrics and SAP found that 42 percent of respondents said their mental... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
conditional on the first choice, it has to decide on its local responsiveness strategy at the onset of each policy epoch. India, which experienced two policy shocks—shutting down to MNEs in 1970 and then opening up again in 1991—offers an View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Since the start of the 2000s, historians have renewed their interest in capitalism, two Harvard professors observe in their new book, American Capitalism: New Histories. One of the primary contributing factors for this, according to Sven... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Sandra Sucher. By contrast, she notes, when Pinterest proactively moved to keep anti-vaccination activists from spreading misinformation on the site during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Events - Business History
and Society “Land at Five Percent, Money at Six: Interest Rates and Expectations in the Eighteenth Century” Hannah Farber, Columbia 3:30 - 5:00 PM, via Zoom Oct 25 25 Oct 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
fintech platform, the authors find that, compared to actual outcomes of the fintech platform’s model, the counterfactual outcomes based on a “traditional model” used for regulatory reporting purposes would result in a 60% higher probability of being rejected and higher... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
different methods of selecting peers, sampling, different proxies and estimation techniques. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55265 Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spreads By: Sikochi,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
just one generation away from slavery. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/J7l1CMM7ky86fk3Wh7qQ][/div] Video Click Here Ken Frazier talks with Tsedal Neeley.) Interview Transcript Tsedal Neeley: Before we talk about vaccines and other important things, I'm View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
effectively over. Amazon picked up its marbles and went home, presumably to choose a more welcoming location or spread the planned headquarters employees across several cities. From the beginning, actively listen to the concerns of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
adopting sustainability practices over time and the implications for firm performance. We find that for almost all industries, sustainability practices converge within an industry over time, implying that they spread as common practices.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman