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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network and perform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
in the moment.” She suggests Amazon may have been better off pursuing a management concept known as structured empowerment, where a company standardizes operations but allows flexibility for employees to make their own choices in key... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
specifically express interest in a suitable product are more likely to receive an appropriate recommendation, though most still receive bad advice. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We then test how regulation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
American. I structured the book around trying to understand why business had come to have such a central place in America and to assessing the consequences of a society so shaped by business. Silverthorne: What one finding in your book is... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to commercialize their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
(roommate) problems in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. We introduce a so-called bi-choice graph for each pair of stable matchings and characterize its structure. Exploiting this structure we obtain as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Models of optimal experience (flow)
Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
that creates surprisingly flexible value. NFTs can turn images into event tickets, and event tickets into brand anchors. They will usher in the next generation of customer loyalty programs, creating structures that benefit both businesses... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
on the United States, killing nearly 3,000 people with four hijacked airliners—and throwing the FBI’s structure and identity into question. Since its founding in 1908, the organization had focused primarily on solving domestic crimes and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
framework for the analysis of SEPs, identifies several types of inefficiencies attached to the lack of price commitment, shows how structured price commitments restore competition, and analyzes whether price commitments are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
quarter of 2001 by more than $1 billion. The government also claimed that the Raptors did not hold the required amount of independent equity, thereby invalidating their purpose. An examiner appointed by the bankruptcy court claimed even... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
an idiot. It’s a lie because your brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
really saying is, ‘I recognize the qualities I value, which just so happen to be the qualities I have.’” The organization’s norms, processes, and interactions are structured to give those who “have it” opportunities to demonstrate their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
shareholders the right to place board nominees on the company's proxy ballot. Said SEC chairman Mary Schapiro: "This would turn what would otherwise be a somewhat illusory [shareholder] right to nominate [directors] into something that is real—and has a real... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
Markets Unit at HBS. The cases hold a crucial lesson for business leaders: Tormenting workers can result in dire consequences. While the cases describe an extreme example, Montgomery wonders if the improper pressure tactics used at France... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman