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- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
research in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the US indicates increasing pressure on these basic resources - and worsening inability of governments to self-fund investment in advance. Hence, there are... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they perform when recruiting executives at other levels. Given... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members. Star analysts who moved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
allowed investors both deal-by-deal selectivity and managed accounts of Cadre properties, at fee levels substantially lower than those charged by PE funds. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 918-020 Reinventing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
explanation of price rigidity has the advantage of being consistent with the observation that the typical size of price increases is nearly invariant to inflation. Lastly, the paper turns to some government policies regarding prices that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
assisting buyers with the move and with their decisions about what to keep and to discard. Sales took off. The key to successful innovation is identifying jobs that are poorly performed in customers’ lives and then designing products,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy? How Can The Balanced Scorecard Improve Corporate Governance? Working Paper: Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard The authors... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Developmental/Regional/?view=usa&ci=9780198075028 Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It Authors:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2011) Abstract As executives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
on the Ideal Gas Law and its effects on a football’s pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure. TRADITION OF SUCCESS The class discussion evolved from whether the Patriots were guilty of doctoring footballs to the larger issue of how the team sustains such a high,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
executives to do in light of the perception by many in the public that the money was being paid out of funds provided by a Government bail-out. DeSantis' action sparked a debate regarding pay for performance... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Article
Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning
By: Aaron Chalfin, Oren Danieli, Andrew Hillis, Zubin Jelveh, Michael Luca, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Selection and Staffing; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Policy
Chalfin, Aaron, Oren Danieli, Andrew Hillis, Zubin Jelveh, Michael Luca, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 124–127.
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- September 2017
- Teaching Note
The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?
By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
- May 1995 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
AT&T Paradyne
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A company making data communication devices has adopted a Total Quality philosophy for working with suppliers, employees, and customers. The finance group finds its existing cost system has become obsolete because of a shift from manual to automatic production... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Product; Corporate Accountability; Activity Based Costing and Management; System; Performance Efficiency; Financial Reporting; Operations; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "AT&T Paradyne." Harvard Business School Case 195-165, May 1995. (Revised April 1998.)
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
that ethnically Chinese firms in China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the performance of ethnically Chinese firms deteriorates over time. One hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne