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- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
experiences and firm performance. We decompose the variance of 58,294 face-to-face transactions, quantifying the relative importance of customer, employee, process, location, and market-level effects on customer satisfaction. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence future decision makers.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
creating a strategy map? At a company, who ideally should be the steward of the strategy map? And, how often can or should the map evolve at a single organization? A: We have seen strategy maps work extremely effectively in organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
cons of mixing business with social service? Can nonprofits effectively serve two masters, their nonprofit mission and the call of the market? At the annual Dialogue on Social Enterprise, a daylong event held April 20 at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the critical role of coordination-the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
organization's skills and culture as the vehicle to produce improved performance. This is by necessity a longer-term strategy. Andrew Sigler, CEO of Champion International (now part of International Paper Company), pursued this approach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
experimental study we find that while repetition of interaction has no effect on initial performance, it has a persistent effect on learning. By separately examining the repetition of interaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
maximize value for their shareholders as a whole in the most effective way. Drawing on theories of distributive justice to inform CEO compensation will surely be met with skepticism. From an accounting... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Davis Abstract—As firms scramble for competitive advantage, boards—once the cautious voices urging management to mitigate risk—are now calling for breakthrough innovation. Indeed, avoiding risk is now seen as the riskiest proposition of all. In speaking with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
performance. They have effectively outsourced the evaluation of CEO performance and compensation to the market, and often to consultants. As an example, from 1990 to 2001, the share of equity-based... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
But perhaps armed with more data, you will. Blitz USA was once the largest manufacturer of gas cans in the United States, with approximately 80 percent of the gas can market. Cy Elmburg, the chairman of Blitz USA, has testified that in July 2006 he sent a letter to the... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
with the sale deters CEOs from selling their equity. The effect of taxes remains significant even after controlling for other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. We also find that taxable institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross