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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

regulation of unethical behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49337 May-June 2015 NACD Directorship Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards By: Ludwig, Edwig, Elise Walton, and Michael Beer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

come to the rescue. However, before we jump to conclusions, we are cautioned to assemble more information. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy pointed out that "odds are heavily stacked against (investors)," because "it is difficult to believe that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

societal stereotypes of underrepresented minorities, making knowledge intensive firms a rich environment to examine diversity initiatives and explore the dynamics that hinder retention and promotion for underrepresented minorities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2006
  • HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

firm's pre-acquisition board of directors remain on the board of the combined firm after the merger. This also holds true at the level of individual target directors. An individual target director is more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

corporate governance, such as the presence of engaged independent board members and other measures, is vital for this separation to work well. “But if management is not under shareholders’ control,” continues Viceira, “it may act in its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

University endowment’s investment choices and of venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

environment qualities, are systematically missing. Regions would benefit from a closer look at the insights from businesses when developing their strategies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49625 in press Organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We propose an efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf   Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural capabilities are an important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

entirely. "It means realizing that investors take seats on the board and looking at how this may change the dynamics of the team, including the possibility of a new CEO," Wasserman says. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

are paying hundreds of dollars for a ticket don't want to hear about bridge periods, and neither do board members. We've lost a lot of patience with developmental strategies in recent years. It seems like more and more in our economy, we... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

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