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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
ownership form signals the extent of institutional constraints and hence it is hypothesized that post-merger customer-mix changes will differ based on firm ownership form. Empirical analysis using data from public and private for-profit,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
being directive, and punitive towards rule-breakers; and assembling and relying on the right knowledge to deal with this pandemic threat. This calls for ambidextrous leadership whereby leaders should signal to followers that they are in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes the configuration of the donor pool, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
on the Uber app, signaling availability, but have yet to be matched with a passenger. And drivers’ ordinary personal insurance usually considers that to be commercial activity, denying coverage for any losses in this circumstance. Edelman... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
hospital industry. We posit that mandatory nonfinancial performance measurement has an information effect and a referent performance effect. The information (referent performance) effect arises because the new performance signals induce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
incentives, firms should align with governmental signals and embrace environmental innovation. Regarding bureaucratic alignment, firms should avoid regulatory shopping and integrate local and global standards. Finally, to address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Paulson (MBA ’70) announced a plan to inject $250 billion into the nation’s banks, a painfully ironic twist for a free-market Republican administration, signaling a turning point in postwar American economic history. Against this backdrop... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s friend circles. While learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
management of channels is not onerous. But when difficult management issues crop up, often they are a signal of deeper problems. If we don't address the core design issues, we don't gain much by way of channel strategy. Rohm and Haas... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
case," Nohria said, "we have to start with this basic belief in creating value. Our students have to understand that when they go out in the world, they have to be seen as people who are creating value in society." The words "in the world"... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
advantage of new technologies in the early 1900s: "If I asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said, 'Faster horses.' Expand your horizons: Set aside a portion of every week for broadening your perspective. Identify important global... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
wildfires, floods, and droughts–and their resulting destruction of lives and properties–sends a clear signal that all members of society must drastically accelerate efforts to both mitigate further climate change and enable resilience and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a positive, proactive resolution to it. Two leading experts in managerial decision making show that many disasters in business are preceded by clear warning View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details