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- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
stars, Groysberg says the evidence "strongly suggests the wisdom of hiring from firms with similar orientations and lesser or equivalent quality" that are less "resource-rich" than one's own, with every effort made to redress the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
or base, and the extensions. There's an asymmetry between these two because the base can be used without the extensions, but to use the extensions you need the base. So, there are a few overall business models that currently exist in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40289 Experimental Evidence on Decision Making Under Information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
difference-in-differences, matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50014 Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under Information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
foster care, the vast number of children available for adoption is the most obvious "low-tech" solution to satisfy demand. However, this availability is complicated by racial preferences (most people want children who look like them), View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
teaches VCPE, maintains a strong financial orientation in the course, because he believes that the valuation of young growth companies - a complex issue often skirted in entrepreneurial education - is even more important when it involves the uncertainty and View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
procurement relationships for manufacturers and that this effect is partially mediated by the level of joint action and the quality of information exchange between the partners. Decomposing dependence View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
relatively higher information asymmetry was reduced following mandatory adoption of IFRS. Rather, we find that differences in information View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
changes in fundamentals. Similarly, asymmetry embedded in the analysts' scenario-based valuations conveys information about asymmetric risk-reward exposure and predicts skewness in future long-run valuation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
licensing, for example, is one such regulation that covers over 30 percent of the US workforce. It exists to correct informational asymmetries between buyers and sellers. Occupational licensing regulation... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
has more information on that dog than you do as a potential buyer or pet guardian, and that can lead to adverse situations,” Exley says. “The information asymmetry and search... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
from its financial bottom line. Recent changes in financial accounting have changed this asymmetry so that there is now an expense associated with stock options, but a considerable difference still exists with tax rules. Specifically, the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
more credible monitoring regimes to reduce information asymmetries between themselves and their suppliers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802 Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
information provision, prices and disclosure levels are negatively correlated. The firm setting a high level of disclosure needs to subsidize consumers in order to attract them to the service, and the firm setting a low level of... View Details
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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
very crowded calendars precisely because this area is important to them, and yet they don’t often get asked about their deepest commitments and influences that inform their leadership. Why Should You Take This Course? The following are... View Details