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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
likelihood that they will exploit their current exchange partners, even after controlling for the leverage provided by the outside options. Our results demonstrate that previously sunken investments lead to a heightened sense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Curriculum | MBA
key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
with a group of other investment professionals, has $250 million under management and specializes in later-stage invest-ments in companies that could use a boost in capital to grow substantially. “Our operating philosophy is to invest... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
randomly by branch, interspersed with control weeks. At the beginning of a test week, the company would send a text message to members of the sales force in a given branch, telling those employees they were getting a certain bonus. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
control of people’s schedules could be achieved without negative organizational consequences. So was it relatively easy to get team members on board with this? Not at all! Remember, this was totally counter to the intense work culture at... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
more fraud than programs handled by in-house managers. Some big affiliates were better than others at controlling fraud. The now-defunct GAN merchants suffered, on average, less than half as much adware and cookie-stuffing as the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build its first 50 vehicles, so the... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
consequences of correcting these erroneous beliefs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53126 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for factors such as industry, pre-MBA... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
was simply too vast to be controlled in any meaningful way. Others thought differently—including Mitchell and Herbert Hoover. Hoover, who was Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928 (when he began his successful campaign to become... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
agree on a term sheet with a venture capitalist; how to split the rewards; and how to allocate control between founders/management and investors. The Dynamic Path: Access the Secrets of Champions to Achieve Greatness through Mental... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
increasing in the "strength" (i.e., relative presence) of related industries. Building on Porter (1998, 2003), we develop a systematic empirical framework to analyze the role of regional clusters-groups of closely related industries View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
months. If normal operations were to resume within one month, 72 percent reported a high likelihood of staying in business. “Fifty percent of respondents believe that the crisis will last at least until the middle of June,” the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to examine factors underlying firms' efforts and their consequences. We find that firms with high anticorruption efforts are domiciled in countries with low corruption ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Straus Professor of Business Administration MIT Press Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in Acute Pain Management By: Popat, Keyuri, Kelly Ann Gracia,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne