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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances indicated that the average PAYDEX score of those surveyed was 53.4. By contrast, the 2011 NFIB Annual Small Business Finance Survey indicated that the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting fraud, which View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
movie admissions was the highest since the late 1950s, and box office revenues grew to $9.5 billion. Internationally, box office grosses are even higher—also at record levels. Total grosses for 2003 will probably not be far behind. All of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
overhauling other parts of the public system, in order to afford a perceived cut in tax revenues through a flat tax implementation, is needed. This, however, does not indicate that the opposite is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
have to select as heterogeneous a group as possible, representing different experiences, thinking styles, cultures, and attitudes. Sometimes, groups get a boost from the addition of customers or professionals from outside the company who can add a View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions group to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
totally on seniority. Japan should try to preserve its view of employees as assets to be nurtured and developed. However, this does not mean that the job has to be for life, and that individual employee performance cannot be rewarded. I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
basis of systematic performance. Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
global pharmaceutical firms. Discussions with industry executives indicate that large firms search globally for in-licensing opportunities and that licensing transactions should not be sensitive to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-074.pdf Competition and Resource View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
between firms' CSR ratings and analysts' forecast errors, indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874 August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
studies indicate that 1) individuals do not exhibit consistency in their sensitivity to variance; 2) consistent diminishing sensitivity is found within the gain and loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be fully explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
ecosystem of complements, a 1% increase in the use of nonpecuniary OSS leads to an increase in value-added productivity of between 0.002% and 0.008%. This effect is smaller for larger firms, and the results indicate that prior research... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman