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  • 15 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in Organization View Details
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

publicly known. Losing streaks are characterized by denial and cover-ups, withholding of information, and finger-pointing rather than accountability. Finding the data and putting facts on the table for all to confront ends closed cronyism... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

emulated. How can organizations ensure that the reports are more than simply separate filings paper-clipped together, but rather that the financial and non-financial data interrelate with each other to tell a unified story? To what degree... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

water consumption in the firm's factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes the company's commitment to more than just the bottom line and its belief that both sets of data have a significant impact... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • August 2012
  • Article

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership
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  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined—including the following: Death-by-delay: Your enemies push discussion of your idea so far into the future it's forgotten.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

intent on trimming expenses. So is the investment worth it? Baik and Srinivasan explore this tension in their working paper, “Private Equity and Digital Transformation,” cowritten with Wilbur Chen of the Hong Kong University of Science... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 07 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

dealt with the myriad medical issues that occurred over several months among the millions of people in attendance. There will also be a complex data study of cell phone traffic —telecommunications—during the festival. The Graduate School... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

application of very strict, mathematical rules, we hypothesize that conscious thought is beneficial. But when it comes to integrating a large amount of information, we think unconscious thought, which gives rougher estimates, is more beneficial (see our article in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

illustrates what a Strategic Deal Profile is, why it is important, and the issues involved in making such a Profile part of actual selling behaviors and performance management practices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50540 February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Asea Brown Boveri: The ABACUS System

By: Robert L. Simons
Describes the computer-based information system (ABACUS) used to monitor and control business operations in a complex, global company. Describes the technical attributes of the database system, financial reporting requirements, target setting and profit calculations on... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Profit; Business Growth and Maturation; Analytics and Data Science; Design; Accounting Audits; Growth and Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Complexity; Technology Industry
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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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