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- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49819 Sharing Private Information with Customers: Strategic Default and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
strengthen their virtuous cycles, undermine those of rivals, and even use them to turn competitors' strengths into weaknesses. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/01/how-to-design-a-winning-business-model/ar/1# Share Issuance and Factor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
looking at observational data on user traffic to Yelp from search engines, we find that Google’s exclusion of downstream competitors may have been effective. The share of Yelp’s traffic coming from Google has declined over this period,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking” Last spring, Toffel sought to change that by taking the unusual step of convening academics and government regulators in the same room for a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
between information and accountability. Sharing a River among Satiable Countries Authors:Lars Ehlers and S. Ambec Periodical:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the problem of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
faculty, access to such information has been made easier since the 1999 opening of the School's Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong, which has served as a jumping-off point for scholars who are involved in a fascinating exchange of... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
question—it’s clear.” Simply put, inefficiencies in the development of precision medicine can best be addressed by a business-analysis approach. With the mapping of the human genome completed 15 years ago, the sci-fi concept of using a cancer patient’s genetic View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
practice of providing detailed information about the company's "quarterly standings, stock prices, new acquisitions, etc.," concludes that "anyone who has stock or investments in a public company should be privileged to... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
cafeteria. While on site we wore regulation steel-toed boots, hard hat, goggles, and ear plugs. During each visit, we ate meals and shared living quarters with employees. The food was abundant and pretty good; quarters were dorm-like,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
branches as well as the internet, but not through employees managing from home. Mat Ishbia, president and CEO of UWM Holdings, shares the sentiment. As he puts it in the same report, “We are better together. If you have an amazing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
Workplaces are divided by political party Using voter registration data and information from business research firm L2, one study revealed “substantial partisan segregation” at the highest levels of executives at S&P 1500 firms, with... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
2013. Studies documented increases in the gap (or in a few studies, the opposite view) between rich and poor. Headlines, at least in the United States, typically focused on the share of wealth and income accumulated by the top .1 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
analyze their own companies and how they create next-generation executives. And execs early in their work lives should use this information to think long and hard about the first companies they join. Says Higgins: "Understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
among executives that begin to view themselves as 'untouchable.'" Gerald Nanninga added, "If CEOs create a lot of wealth at their company and share it with enough people, they can get away with making themselves extremely... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
and to use it to enact its strategy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52087 December 2016 Information Economics and Policy The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne