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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
analyze the information exploitation dichotomy outlined above. We take the view that there are two types of exploitation: one which is beneficial to consumers, and one which is not. The first type of exploitation improves the quality of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
woman." The authors recommend that WLPs use a "shadow negotiation" framework that focuses on strategic "moves and turns" to give women tools to negotiate over potentially controversial issues and decisions. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
forthcoming Strategic Management Journal When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance? By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
every aspect of the school experience with exuberance. From HBS, she joined Merrill Lynch as an investment banker. While with Merrill, she worked in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo and came away with a potent ability to analyze companies, a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
as a process of cascading team learning activities—independently carried out but interdependent in their impact on company performance. Different types of teams or groups face different learning needs and challenges. A leadership team may face the need to make View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
analyze the big picture (Just what is it that's changing?), help participants understand the "new agenda," and offer a good deal of practical advice on how to thrive in the coming years. Something important I've come to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will optimize its collective welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
leading the development of an auditing and verification framework for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (the VPs), a set of commitments embraced by most of the world’s largest extractive companies. The case provides students with an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
(1990) and Petersen-Rajan (1995) models of information acquisition in credit markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-077.pdf Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with $991 billion in assets under management. He majored in culture and behavior at Yale and has spent a lifetime... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an alternative interpretation is that hospitals with greater expertise in a treatment use it more because of their comparative advantage, suggesting that standardization is misguided. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
recent work in regional political economy of contemporary China. In keeping with a movement in comparative politics toward analyzing subnational politics, the "new regionalists" seek to identify and explain meaningful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
there, so it blinds you to the reality of people’s talents and potential contributions. Why does an organization benefit from having a mix of women and men in leadership roles? I want to stay away from the studies that analyze... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
workforce flexibility have followed, including a new case about how Honeywell weathered the Great Recession. The next step of the research will involve interviewing managers who have conducted layoffs—or who have found alternatives to... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
a differentially higher response to these benefits. The results, robust to numerous alternative hypotheses and specifications, suggest IFRS adoption is self-reinforcing, which, in turn, has implications for the consequences of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne