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  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

private equity partner, was planning its options after seven years of investment. There were four growth levers Mavi could pull, but each involved selecting one growth path while neglecting another. Should the company invest in growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter

By: Ovul Sezer, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman
People often make the well-documented mistake of paying too much attention to the outcomes of others’ actions while neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In five experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing this... View Details
Keywords: Outcome Bias; Intentions; Joint Evaluation; Judgment; Separate Evaluation; Goals and Objectives; Prejudice and Bias; Judgments; Performance Evaluation; Outcome or Result
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  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • Profile

Madison McIlwain

the room,” you very well may have the right instinct. Developing a “gut” on investment decisions has been one of the most elusive metrics for my career. I've felt varying degrees of insecurity about... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

opportunities for women to lead. At HBS, we create case studies to help teach students to become future leaders. Each case generally focuses on one organization and features a protagonist, often an executive facing a difficult decision or... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

investing in unicorns—highly valued, privately held start-ups—and the consequences of these investments for corporate governance provisions. Larger funds and those with more stable funding are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross foreign assets and liabilities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • TeachingInterests

MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The  words  “business  model”  are  inescapable  in  our  daily  fare of  business  news.  These  two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

  • May 2008
  • Article

Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

a decision was made to invest about $200 million in a strategy to build motorcycles in Thailand for export to Europe. Annual savings of $65 to $75 million were expected from the move. In part, this View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

will increase incentives for innovators to invest in new treatments,” the researchers say. A basic bundle would also need cost-sharing rules, provider payments, and myriad other details. Often, these are View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 05 Feb 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

throughout an organization. As CEO, for example, he shared his 360-degree performance evaluation from peers and subordinates with HCL’s 50,000 employees as part of what he called “reverse accountability.” Ray Dalio, founder and head of the highly successful View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether he could get traders and View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

importance of including business-side managers in certain key decisions so that all are invested in a successful outcome. In other words: Successful IT strategy and management is now extremely dependent on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Businesses  This SIP is designed for students who are focused on the rapidly changing world of sports media and sports technology. It will be focused on topics of interest to students who are considering careers in entrepreneurial companies of all kinds or who intend... View Details