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- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
and, second, a growing threat of politically motivated changes to regulatory regimes. There has been much talk recently about the extent to which the proliferation of derivative products has allowed banks to manage their balance sheets better. By View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 from... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
support, they don't have to fear their attacks or monitor their every move. When people give one another the benefit of the doubt and, better yet, believe in one another, more projects are launched, more innovations get seeded, and more View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
brittle. If we fixate on all that could go wrong, it's hard to imagine how things could go right. Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, connects reluctance to experiment to "fear of being thought a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
react to the hiring decision, and was it worth the risk? Would male employees or local partners be reluctant to work with a woman? Would local customers refuse to trust the decisions of a woman? "You're basically facing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
their own work and family life strategy. Charting Your Course debuted in May 2000 when fifty alumnae, most of them from the MBA reunion classes of '81, '86 and '91, met on campus for two days. Hart, who like... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
he worked with senior managers whom he trusted. They could contradict him. Although he had ultimate veto powers, he let his executives overrule him at times. But they had to convince him of their arguments. Initiatives often came from the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and 2000. We also show that immigrant inventors were more productive during their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
globalization. Our work has not been as global as it should be. Too much of the research is based on organizational life in the West. In addition, I suspect we need to reframe our understanding of what makes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
are distributed in the organization. As record numbers of Americans quit their jobs in search of better work and life arrangements, power sharing offers an antidote to power concentration and a pathway to... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore the benefit to enthusiasts of moving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent of what their male counterparts are paid for the same work at... View Details