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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"The core idea — an innovation in entrepreneurial finance—is to make prominent the role of people in making decisions." Thus an early reading for the "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, on the nature of financial View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
weighting of nonfinancial metrics in compensation contracts as a mechanism for generating improvements in nonfinancial dimensions of performance. I Read Playboy for the Articles: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
contract employees—paid $3 or $4 an hour—delivered the same output in a data-entry task. However, a third group paid $3 an hour plus an unexpected $1 wage increase were 20 percent more productive. An experiment by researchers at Harvard,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical interdependency across their boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
whether the CEOs in their sample simply couldn't afford to delegate key duties to professionals who would be willing to work longer hours—and thus generate better results—than the CEOs themselves. Delegation is prohibitively expensive in India due to poor View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
bottom line. Some companies have invested time and energy into their CSR programs only after getting burned by bad publicity. For example, Nike suffered from an onslaught of negative press and large-scale protests from those who claimed its View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910009-PDF-ENG Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. EcclesHarvard Business School Case 410-056 Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
election, and we rid ourselves of the disastrous George W. Bush administration. Q: How will you continue to explore the rich aspects of leadership that you have described in Hedgehogs and Foxes? What is your next project? A: I just signed a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
aeronautics industry has undergone ups and downs in the past decades: Large orders of planes (and engines) and their cancellation can create prosperity or wreak havoc in these concentrated labor markets. This research surfaces the implicit social View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
are an enabling force legally astute management teams can use to manage the firm more effectively. In particular, it proposes that legally astute management teams can, inter alia, use formal contracts as complements to relational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
customers in new product development) and developing a reputation for environmentally friendly behavior. What is the role of operations management in this context? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Collusion in Markets with Syndication By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery, and Jordan M. Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
"November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder was off enjoying the winter break with his family and the other worked on lucrative consulting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with the alternatives of fulfilling the contract from its new Ohio factory, which can only produce above the target cost because... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
professionals according to a contract negotiated before he joined AIGFP. These bonuses were seen by the public as going to the very people whose mistakes resulted in the need for a bailout in the first place and resulted in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders on the exchange bought and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
live concerts and merchandising (for music) and product placements (for movies and network shows), will become essential for the financial health of media companies. This will involve setting up "creative" contracts with artists... View Details