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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
for nearly two decades. Indeed, studies from around the world consistently show that companies see productivity gains after allowing employees to choose their work locations. Remote work offers many other benefits, too: “Commute times... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950, which studies the relationships between law, corporate governance, and economic development. We also asked him what turn-of-the-century Brazil can teach us about government bailouts today. Sean... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors, which in turn is acquired thanks to the brokers’ ability to observe order flow before the rest of the market.” Stockbrokers are intermediaries who buy and sell stocks for retail and institutional clients, either for a fee or... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
original donation total. With a second event complete, the two business school graduates at the helm were able to do a deep-dive analysis of their concept and forecast its future. From what they saw, it was positioned to grow rapidly in the years ahead. “When we View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
School’s Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, studies entrepreneurship in Hollywood. Like other entrepreneurs, screenwriters struggle with the decision of how to advance their product. Should they pitch just a story line... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit rating analysts to party... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So do company ethics codes have any value? In a recent case... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
market. By early 1917, Ahmednagar held 1,169 civilians, mostly men in their mid-30s. Although the prisoners’ movements were restricted, they were treated fairly well. They were allowed to build tennis courts, for example. Many spent their days learning foreign... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
them. It is a challenge because only you can observe what you want, and others may not want the same thing. My trick has always been to assume (often wrongly) that my desires are shared with most people in the world. That’s why I’m always... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
how a truly free market will work as there are no truly free markets today Perhaps a proper study on how big money rigs and biases things in its own favour should be first carried out before deciding how this can be remedied." Ken... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
Innovator's Dilemma as well as studies conducted more recently—might help angels, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs get around one of the heartbreaking paradoxes of success. Outpacing Consumers Every market entails a trajectory of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
yet. The first two months of RC (first) year were a blur. I had never really thought about my career so holistically before—I studied biomedical engineering as an undergrad, and immediately became a biomedical engineer. The resources at... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
developments of 3-D seismic data acquisition and horizontal drilling techniques that increase the speed and accuracy of locating and tapping pockets of oil. "On the one hand, this technology enables us to find reserves more cheaply and with a higher level of success,"... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and organization of the market when a match was operating and when it was not.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne