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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
enjoys a positive VoC under general conditions. We conduct numerical simulations to study the magnitude of the VoC and find that it can be substantial—in our simulations, retailers that switched from a fixed to a sequential assortment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
tensions associated with exploiting prior strategies even as they explore into the future. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-110.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsLeaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
steps toward rapprochement in June 2016. The central dilemma is this: whether in light of the existing uncertainties companies operating in both countries can resume their investments and commercial activities, or should decisions be put on hold? What is the best View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
for all titles released by a sample of over 200 artists. I analyze sales dynamics from January 2005 to April 2007—a period in which the share of unbundled units jumped from roughly one-third to two-thirds of total unit sales. My modeling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
are better designed to cope with scalability issues. Incentive schemes that reward users as a function of their contributions help improve sharing, but they introduce other distortions, and the legal risks of sharing limit their efficacy.... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
peacetime. With the total economic as well as political-military collapse of the Nationalist regime, the new PRC had a potentially wide range of economic policy options. Its actual choices, however, were narrowed by the ideological... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Sanginga had founded a youth “agripreneurs” program, which would train young university graduates on improved agricultural practices, food processing, and strategies for starting an agribusiness. Since its establishment in 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which firms refuse to join the syndicate of any firm that deviates from the collusive price, thereby raising total production... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
illustrates the importance of embedding a scale-up strategy in the initial design of a program that aims to solve a widespread problem. In the following discussion, Kanter and Litow talk about the process through which creative,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
targets compared to dealers who also acquire brands outside of the franchise network. As a consequence the exclusive dealers receive a relatively bigger cut of the total amount of discounts that dealers are offered conditional on their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
non-founding CEO will never be able to get." According to this thinking, for a fixed level of total rewards, if founders receive a higher level of psychological rewards, they should be willing to accept a smaller amount of material... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets—a phenomenon that is not observed in new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne