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- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
School and a leader of the Managing the Future of Work Project and the Project on Workforce. Lakshmi Ramarajan: Don’t leave struggling workers behind Employers should remember the pandemic is not over. Many employees still need flexibility, autonomy, and View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
asynchronous and virtual interactions can be influenced by peer training relationships, drawing “tangible benefits for patients many years later,” suggesting such relationships continue to pay off for a long time, the authors write.... View Details
- 1998
- Working Paper
CEO Incentives and Firm Size
By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
Hall, Brian, and George P. Baker. "CEO Incentives and Firm Size." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 6868, December 1998.
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
brought on board were also close in a way Shelman found surprising when she spent time with them when researching the case. "There was huge camaraderie evident in the way that the top management team interacted with each other they... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
"Interactivity isn't just about technology," he says. "It's equally important to build an interactive culture." INCLUSION: In organizational conversation, inclusion means giving employees a chance to help tell a company's story. Ceding a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services
Running Jobs Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting 8ms Monitoring and Controlling Jobs Whether using a GUI or the command line, monitoring the progress of your jobs and understanding how to control them is... View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
TECHNOLOGIES WHILE MINIMIZING THEIR NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES." If we view AI as a supportive tool, augmenting human decision-making, then it is important to teach people how to structure problems and interactions with AI "optimally" and how... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
results and interact with shareholders,” says Desai, who is also a Harvard Law School professor. “The problem is that people perceive finance to be this difficult building block. I want executives to have more comfort with it and to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
hybrid—version that gained acceptance (at least for coders) in tech companies like Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems 30 years ago. The pandemic surge in work-from-home has morphed in some organizations into hybrid work strategies that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
bribes were discovered, Serafeim found that bribery cases detected by a firm's internal control systems (including tip-offs and whistle-blowers) had a far less negative impact than those detected by outside... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
platforms, in contrast to most other firms who focused on stand-alone applications. It was an approach that permeated both their tools business—the software they provided to other programmers for developing applications; and the operating View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer carefully walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing meltdown of the U.S. financial system and then present new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
before.” “Today’s jobs are expanding in terms of what is expected of people, but the resources people get to do those jobs is not expanding” “In many companies today, people are being held accountable for measures that are much wider than the resources and the amount... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
work over their personal lives are less happy." The findings have professional and personal implications for workers at a time when many business leaders are embracing performance-based pay. About 75 percent of organizations in the United States use incentive View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
entering the family business, we also offer introductory sessions that are helpful to anyone likely to encounter a family business system in their career. Our social events not only help integrate the club and facilitate EC/RC View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Lifelong Financial Security for “Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities” ( The Review of Financial Studies , 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Finance,... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
It was exciting to see how to apply what we learned in a real-life context. Many of my classmates felt they actually understood statistics for the first time thanks to the incredible faculty. 5. Systems and View Details