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    Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

    Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software
    • 10 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

    Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
    • 11 Dec 2012
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    First Look: Dec. 11

    individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Jul 2006
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    First Look: July 25, 2006

    http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206046   PublicationsLasting Success for the Christian in Business Author:Laura L. Nash Periodical:Business and Professional Ethics Journal 23, no. 4 (spring 2006). A Decision Perspective... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Jul 2009
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    rating agencies. We use the rise of a third ratings agency to examine competition and reputation. Consistent with Klein and Leffler (1981), competition leads to lower quality in the ratings market: the incumbent View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    Too Motivated?

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen

    I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details

    Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 05 Aug 2014
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    policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), an View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Apr 2014
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    Payout Policy

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz
    • 13 May 2014
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    First Look: May 13

    results in terms of how much franchisors and franchisees believe that their relations will last or will be intensified in the future. We leverage on relational-contracts theory to develop our predictions and interpret our findings.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2013
    • Article

    The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity

    By: Michael Ewens, Charles Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and venture capitalist to show how it alters the interaction between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Contracts; Investment; Competition; Agency Theory; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory; Diversification
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    • 25 Nov 2014
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    field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel

      Srikant M. Datar

      Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
      • 15 May 2012
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      First Look: May 15

      company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel

        V.G. Narayanan

        Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
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        Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

        and that non domain-specific experiences can bias beliefs based on their similarity to the assessed event. We test these predictions using data from our Covid survey and from a primed-recall experiment about cyberattack risk. In line with our View Details
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        Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

        Negotiations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33903, June 2025. Collusion in Brokered Markets By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery June 2025 | Article | Journal of Finance High commissions in the U.S. residential real estate View Details
        • 08 Dec 2015
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        December 8, 2015

        create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 22 Apr 2014
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        provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 09 Dec 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Unilever—A Case Study

        free-market economy, and proclivity toward trade protectionism, the United States has always been a major host economy for foreign firms. It has certainly been the world's largest host since the 1970s, and probably was before 1914 also. 6 Given that most View Details
        Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
        • 30 Jan 2018
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        January 30, 2018

        practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the Work of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne