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- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining how firms respond when their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
PublicationsManaging School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership Authors:Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, editors Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Managing School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
care, value is determined by how well the needed set of skills and functions come together. In surgery, for example, value depends on not only the surgeon but also the anesthesiologist, the nurses, the radiologist, the skilled technicians, and others, all View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
benefiting their performance irrespective of whether these decisions negatively affect other profit centers. However, the firm implemented a third system that would potentially lead managers to benefit other profit centers. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of energy by the kinds of startup companies Schumpeter himself preferred remained vital sources... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
reallocation constitute an important source of productivity gains while its relative importance varies across nations. Ignoring the role of this source can lead to significant bias in understanding the nature of gains. We also perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important implications for specifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would exhibit few of the features... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
clients and employees who felt betrayed by the firm's apparent misconduct. He must confront some tough decisions about recently uncovered questions concerning the handling of certain accounting transactions three years earlier and about the continued lagging View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Real Estate Harvard Business School Note 208-041 Demonstrates the accelerating impact of leverage on returns under differing scenarios of property performance. The performance scenarios represent two points in time: the inception of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in real GDP, Werker's View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman