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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence
Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
- Web
Giving - Alumni
field immersions give students insights into global business. Read stories Ways to Give There are many ways to show your support—and have a far-reaching impact. By Credit Card By Check By Wire Transfer With Stock Donor-Advised Fund... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a strong learning effect whereby... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1561903 2006 pub Legislating View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Bubbles for Fama By: Robin Greenwood , Andrei Shleifer & Yang You FEB 2017 Authors Greenwood, Shleifer, and You evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles using US and international View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
and Discover. Online Give Online Give online via Harvard's secure donation form Online LOG IN TO GIVE Recommended for all alumni and required for international credit card gifts Give Without Login For US-based donors only—no personal... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
lot of pressure to publish and get things right,” Edmondson says. By setting up an environment where failure is the norm, Heemstra takes away some of that pressure and prompts people to discuss mistakes, rather than hide them. Edmondson View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
tries to put the right number of products in the right stores at the right time, so it sells as much as possible and doesn’t lose track of stock. As part of the study, Tapestry managers who oversee shelf stocking provided employees called... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active investment managers and passive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
from that.” The new inventory system was actually something Whole Foods had started to implement before the Amazon deal, pressured by activist shareholders who had seen the grocer’s stock and sales margins slipping for two years. “This is... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
interest approved by the board. The idea was to use these mind-numbingly complex entities to manage reported earnings, minimize reported debt, and maintain the company's all-important credit rating and overvalued stock price. Enron also... View Details
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
Certificate of Specialization in finance and accounting RECOMMENDED LEARNING PATHWAYS Do you want to dive deeper into finance and accounting to advance your career? By taking three courses in this subject area, you can earn an advanced... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
process for you to get that fee waived. We hope the fee waiver removes one of the many things that we know can prevent people from different backgrounds from applying to HBS. “It’s advantageous to have a recommendation letter from an HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf A Corporate Arbitrage Approach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research here . More Info View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
slowed to 18% in 2015. Beighton was convinced that ASOS's strategy was right and that the company needed to improve its execution to recapture its historical success. Some analysts were not so sure, and the stock price still had not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne