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  • 25 Oct 2006
  • Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

option practices remains unknown, this most recent scandal has deepened the sense in many quarters that option contracts given to managers distort behavior in destructive ways. The ability to play with, and respond to, the many variables... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

ideologies at the door and approached the topic as we do any other topic involving investment under uncertainty. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change?... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities
  • Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across different security markets. This... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis of Complementarities and Channels Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Publication:The World Economy (forthcoming). (Special Issue on "Foreign Direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

quickly changing world means that you should innovate every day,” they write. The current moment, when routines have been disrupted by the pandemic, presents an opportunity for leaders to purge old behaviors and build a more creative... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring the different sets of behaviors and activities, across all levels of the organization. Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment,... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

organization. As CEO, for example, he shared his 360-degree performance evaluation from peers and subordinates with HCL’s 50,000 employees as part of what he called “reverse accountability.” Ray Dalio, founder and head of the highly successful View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • June 2005
  • Article

Currency Returns, Intrinsic Value, and Institutional Investor Flows

By: K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Real Exchange Rate; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

These Are the Good Old Days

made their mark in the media and entertainment realm — be it publications, television, movies, theater, or the arts. At graduation, investment banking and consulting ranked as top career choices. But over the years, she’s seen her fellow... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019

investing in core programs and strategic innovation, while still concluding the year in a strong financial position. The HBS economic model is unique among the Harvard University schools and begins with our commitment to internally funded... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

(Studies 3 and 4), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes did not occur in the case of honest behavior or consideration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Learning from the Past

specially commissioned maps, and 11 explanatory appendices as well as numerous footnotes and other study aids. Insights into contemporary human behavior and society, written more than 2,400 years ago. Insights into contemporary human... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

J.C. Cuddy, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Dana R. Carney Abstract The current experiment tested whether changing one's nonverbal behavior prior to a high-stakes social evaluation could improve performance in the evaluated task. Participants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne