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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the credit crisis of 2007-2008. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-025.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
innovation is less likely to occur." Brian Donahue warns that "an assessment of internal controls by management at a point in time is not effective because the organization—and thus internal controls—have already changed to meet the demands of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
needs; risk-adjustment of payment will make the sick much more attractive enrollees than the present uniform pricing system. All boats rise in a rising sea. Other consumer-driven markets demonstrate that suppliers innovate to reach all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
achieved higher profits when employees were passive (proactive). Study 2 constructively replicates these findings in the laboratory: passive (proactive) groups achieved higher performance when leaders acted high (low) in extraversion. We discuss theoretical and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
up,” says Benjamin G. Edelman, an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School whose research focuses on consumer protection related to online businesses. “It’s not because regulators... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
country. Q: What are the practical policy or other implications from your work for public or private decision makers? Where do you see the research making a difference? A: Our paper provides a simple interpretation for the East Asian... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
organizations, and what managers must do to effectively lead the change process. Tushman and O'Reilly are the coauthors of Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
peak in 1997, Kodak had a market value of $30 billion. Despite inventing the first digital camera, Kodak stumbled to capitalize on the new technology and by 2011 the company was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In September 2013,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital gain of 1.2 billion, 13% of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding tensions over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
characteristics such as pollution levels, regulatory compliance, environmental management practices that affect operations (such as environmental auditing), and stakeholder engagement (such as environmental reporting). Where Rankings Go... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental... View Details