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- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, and Michigan, were all established between 2005 and 2015 to allow time for the researchers to study how the firms fared in getting to market. The researchers focused explicitly on... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the stocks of View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
collaboration and cooperation over decentralized individualism. How can large firms like BP collaborate among units and divisions and still remain financially profitable? A: The approach at BP was developed precisely to improve the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor the key View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Roll Back Malaria and BCG: The Change Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon EmissionsResearch has shown that reducing carbon emissions and exhibiting good environmental performance are important for corporations. But how exactly are these... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
transitory fluctuations remain largely unexplained. To help fill this gap, this paper further documents the recent rise in transitory fluctuations in compensation and investigates its linkage to the concurrent rise in volatility of firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
saliency of ethics and morality and leads to significant reductions in dishonesty. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-117.pdf Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance Authors:Bradley... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Real Estate Harvard Business School Note 208-041 Demonstrates the accelerating impact of leverage on returns under differing scenarios of property performance. The performance scenarios represent two points in time: the inception of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace