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  • 10 May 2016
  • News

The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop

  • 30 Mar 2017
  • HBS Seminar

David McKenzie, World Bank

    Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

    In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    road.” When KKR bought CHI Overhead Doors in 2015, it offered a test case for an idea Stavros had been toying with since he was a student at HBS. He made every employee an owner, promising each a payout of at least $15,000 if the company... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Research Summary

    Bringing Individuals Back In: The Effects of Career Experience on New Firm Founding (forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003)

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    In this paper (with Scott Shane) the link between the career experiences of potential entrepreneurs and the decision to found a new firm is explored. Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, sociological research on organizational foundings has largely... View Details
    • Article

    Complementarity between Audited Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure: The Case of Former Andersen Clients

    By: Richard Frankel, Alon Kalay, Gil Sadka and Yuan Zou
    Prior literature presents various perspectives on the role of financial reporting. One view is that mandatory periodic reporting disciplines managers and encourages timely voluntary disclosure. We examine this "confirmation hypothesis" using the shock to financial... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Disclosure; Mandatory Reporting; Reliability; Voluntary Disclosure; Financial Reporting; Quality; Corporate Disclosure
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    • November 2018 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Federica Gabrieli
    In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to reform the... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Board Of Directors; Executive Committees; Human Resource Management; Compensation; Pay For Performance; Incentives; Bonuses; Incentive Programs; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; Performance Measurement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Human Resources; Management; Executive Compensation; Change; Performance Evaluation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Europe; United Kingdom; Scotland
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    • April 2014
    • Article

    Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity

    By: F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth
    We propose that dishonest and creative behavior have something in common: they both involve breaking rules. Because of this shared feature, creativity may lead to dishonesty (as shown in prior work), and dishonesty may lead to creativity (the hypothesis we tested in... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Creativity; Attitudes
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    • November–December 2012
    • Article

    Toward a Theory of Extended Contact: The Incentives and Opportunities for Bridging Across Network Communities

    By: Maxim Sytch, Adam Tatarynowicz and Ranjay Gulati
    This study investigates the determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as nonredundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight how firms can enter into these relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities
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    • 17 Sep 2021
    • News

    AI Can Help Address Inequity — If Companies Earn Users’ Trust

    • 20 Oct 2020
    • News

    Presidential Debates Have Shockingly Little Effect on Election Outcomes

    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Kate Kellogg, MIT

      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

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      * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

      • 31 Aug 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

      professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, tested the potential problem of raters that compete for business favoring the issuers and providing less reliable ratings. Their HBS working paper "Reputation and... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
      • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
      • Case

      NovoCure Ltd.

      By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
      Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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      • 05 May 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

      perform better afterward." A field experiment The final study tested the hypotheses in the real-world setting of Wipro, a business-process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India. The experiment was conducted at a tech support call... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 02 Feb 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

      Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
      • January 2019
      • Article

      Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study

      By: Christine L. Exley and Stephen J. Terry
      We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with... View Details
      Keywords: Reference Points; Wage Elasticities; Labor Supply; Effor; Volunteering; Prosocial Behavior; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior
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      • July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
      • Case

      Hamilton: An American Musical

      By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe
      In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details
      Keywords: Entertainment; Creative Industries; Performing Arts; (General) Management; Blockbusters; Non-profit; Theater Entertainment; Strategy; Risk Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Creativity; Product Launch; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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      • January 2010
      • Article

      Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

      We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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