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  • 03 Sep 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

executives to do in light of the perception by many in the public that the money was being paid out of funds provided by a Government bail-out. DeSantis' action sparked a debate regarding pay for performance in general, and retention... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

supposed to be bad, and there was little debate about what companies or managers could do about it. For me this just sounded too simplistic. Moreover, the focus on national laws led to policy recommendations that were sometimes too... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's there was little foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too. Their book, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

financial environment, and possibly for firms in industries with highly liquid assets as well. This result sheds light on the link between financial and economic development. Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

handful of people meet with management at the same time, and they all happen to make the same decision—buy or sell—it suggests a connection," Soltes says. More disturbing to the spirit of Reg FD, the research showed that private meetings apparently View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

target individual observing the choices of a paired individual. The results showed that observing others, rather than being observed, led to the pattern of increased risk taking. The findings of the two studies indicate the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

ongoing situation in which “no one knows the answer” led to “busy brain—it was difficult to calm down and stop the thoughts,” in one CEO’s words, saying that “long days” left him feeling “lethargic and down.” Managing business: rethinking... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

International Trade Finance Practices Authors: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

with the light of morning, they saw the decision more favorably overall. (This nding contrasts with previous research showing that sleep selectively enhances recall for negative information.) But there was a twist. When asked how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

at the failure of the Japanese economy in light of Levitt's insights. When Levitt wrote "The Globalization of Markets" in 1983, Japanese companies were held up as model competitors. Today, the Japanese economy and the... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

downside, what legal actions can we expect from workers or shoppers or diners? In the best upside, what perceptions and indicators of healthy environments led to more productivity and confidence (and revenue)? Right now, assessments of... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 27 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

auditorium.Photo: Susan Young Professor Sunil Gupta, who chairs the General Management Program, led the question-and-answer session. Gupta asked whether anything had surprised Virts during his space station stint. Virts recalled the view... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

fact, Harvard University research suggests that reopening restaurants last spring, shortly after the pandemic’s first wave, may have led some people to assume that eating out was safe—despite the now-documented links between indoor dining... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

led to economic development and were therefore emulated in other nations at the time. The idea for it probably came from my love of old books, which allowed me to see quite starkly the discrepancy between past and present fame in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

the best path forward. But are small operational fixes like lighting retrofits meaningful in a climate-changed world, or are they necessary but wildly insufficient? The very concept of sustainability was indeed critiqued by many speakers... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

  PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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