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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the technical features of the system and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
with which you are forced to characterize your economic situation provides a natural limit on opportunistic behavior that serves the interests of prospective lenders and tax authorities. This uniformity may even benefit you if it makes... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
wanted a wicked problem. And this was it.” On a temperate October day last year, Eamer, 67, with a white beard and curly white hair, is standing on the side of the road, positioned at the nexus of four forces—environmental, provincial,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
the 1968 timetable. But I think, for many African Americans, it was a very positive era in which we were living. Sometimes it was overshadowed by tragedy, but in my mind those tragedies really didn’t define the era. We felt particularly... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
insiders than outsiders. The findings show a strong correlation between hours worked and productivity—a 2.14 percentage point increase in productivity for every one percentage point increase in hours worked. That positive correlation is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the quality of its clinical performance on cardiovascular patients. We find that, on average, focus has a positive effect on quality performance. We then distinguish between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
behavior that have not been considered in previous research. First, customers who monitor product prices after purchase may initiate opportunistic returns because of price drops. Second, customers who anticipate a future return may... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
tell you about women who have retired from marketing and technology and HR positions all across corporate America reporting to the CEO. You haven't heard of them, but they are outstanding senior-level business women and they will be great... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
earned on fixed costs), the brick-and-mortar retailer finds itself with shrinking margins. Online retailers' lower cost structures are driven by a variety of cost efficiencies. From an employee perspective, positions such as cashiers and... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
federal government program that encourages companies to voluntarily self-police and self-disclose regulatory violations, we examine how participation affects the behaviors of regulators and regulated facilities. We find that on average,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
at parties. These were interesting people with real-world experience I would not have met otherwise, and so rugby had some positives from a career standpoint, too. INVITATIONAL RUGBY TOURNAMENT PROMISES EXCITEMENT, FREE BEER —Harbus, May... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
about, but she was really scared. She looked around and felt like, “Wait a second, I can’t throw away my shot. I can’t move toward this experience until I know that I’m really positioned to make the most of it.” And so Ananda, with all of... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
targets. The construct validity of the ratings was partly supported because there were positive associations between individuals' peer-rated creativity and their extraversion and between individuals' self-rated and supervisor-rated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel