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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
Telesom ZAAD initially made mobile money services free and managers focused on customer acquisition and training employees to effectively explain the service to prospective customers. In addition to gaining indirect revenue from a... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
has sharply declined over the past 30 years, from 60% or 70% to only about 20%. What accounts for this trend? Disruption is coming for management consulting, the authors say, as it has recently come for law. For many years the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns and trading volume at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
firmly in the hands of professional managers who are brought in from the outside. As Rahmi Koç explains in the interview, it takes the managers a long time to earn their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses-is a recipe for failure, according to the authors. Meanwhile, CEOs spend too much time on managing today's... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
opportunities and promise where others see only defeat.” At each stage of aviation's business life cycle—start-up, growth, maturity, decline, rebirth—new types of leaders emerged, such as entrepreneur C.E. Woolman at Delta in the 1920s and '30s; professional View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
in, and when they did, they saw a warm, welcoming city, with attractive facilities and convenient infrastructure. Team Great Britain also vastly exceeded expectations, earning 65 medals in the Games compared to 19 four years earlier and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
requirements are essential for newspapers going forward. It turns out that few companies exemplify these attributes better than Bezos's Amazon. And it's hard to think of another digital CEO who is better at managing across these three... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
the Academy of Management Journal. The paper was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2004 Academy of Management Conference and of the 2003 Babson-Kauffman Research Conference. Sarah Jane Gilbert:... View Details