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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
being groomed to replace Adi, 71, the eighth richest Indian with a fortune estimated at $8.3 billion, according to Forbes. In a 2012 Economic Times interview, Adi said of Nisa, "She could head the business. She has also repositioned the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22
Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample of 4,278 listed U.K. firms, we construct a social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
“Rebalancing must occur." -Srikant Datar "Increasingly, we believe, business schools are at a crossroads and will have to take a hard look at their value propositions," the authors write in the introduction. "This was true before the View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino Abstract—When explaining others'... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
$70 million to almost $700 million—to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. Then, with MCC assistance, countries take the lead in designing and implementing programs, with both the MCC and the recipient country... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. These findings are presented in the working paper When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation, coauthored by HKS Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
performances throughout the Bay Area with a range of groups, including the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. After majoring in music and physics at the University of California at Berkeley, he studied conducting at London’s Guildhall... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics last year, The View Details
- January 2016
- Article
Making Do with Less: Working Harder During Recessions
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed "making do with less." Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "Making Do with Less: Working Harder During Recessions." Journal of Labor Economics 34, no. S1 (January 2016): S333–S360.
- December 1986
- Article
Understanding the U.S. Dollar in the Eighties: The Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Asset Pricing; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; History; Performance Expectations; Economics; United States
Frankel, J., and K. A. Froot. "Understanding the U.S. Dollar in the Eighties: The Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists." Special Issue Economic Record (December 1986): 24–38. (Reprinted in Exchange Rate Economics, vol. I, edited by R. MacDonald and M. Taylor, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., 1992.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Macro for Managers
By: David A. Moss
This note attempts to provide a conceptual overview of macroeconomics. Designed for managers and students of management, it emphasizes fundamental ideas and relationships, rather than mathematical models and formulas. The note identifies—and is structured around—three... View Details
- 2015
- Discussion Paper
The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change
By: Claudia Steinwender
A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
Steinwender, Claudia. "The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change." CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1334, February 2015.
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
New Model for High Performance But lately the challenges for professional service firms (PSFs) have been growing in size and complexity, and the excitement is more the type you need a stomach antacid to control. The dilemma, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
experiences in more than twenty countries. (See cover story) How Countries Compete by Richard H.K. Vietor (HBS Press) Professor Vietor examines the different social, economic, cultural, and historical forces shaping governmental approaches to View Details