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- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
perks and forms of compensation, such as stock option grants. "My sense is that the Obama administration fundamentally believes in the power of markets combined with good government supervision,"... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
exercise that helps them refine their elevator pitches and better understand several key marketing principles. Leads to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
market conditions—accepting more immigrants when labor markets are tighter and in sectors where labor demand is higher, and protecting US workers during recessions. 2. Immigrants—of all skills—would help the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
of culture, race, gender, and religion in historical developments. Economic historians, often in recent decades trained in economics, have done pioneering work in quantifying historical trends in the integration of world markets. However these scholars have been far... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
powerful as, and less responsible than, the countries in which they operated. Now the focus of interest seems to be different, if one believes the author of a book published several months ago, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015
2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
his wallet and saw he only had seven dollars left. That stuck with him, and it has fueled him ever since. “The power in the entertainment industry is shifting to the superstars, and the smartest among those stars are finding ways to... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And, to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. This book shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-007.pdf Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement Authors:Neeru Paharia and Rohit Deshpandé Abstract While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
that when given the choice to brag or to humblebrag, it's better to straight-out brag. "When people first join Twitter, one of the first things they notice is that a lot of people humblebrag," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
Abstract Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
benefit. The area of decision bias has grown as an important lens of analysis in many areas of business, from finance to marketing to negotiations. We also believe that cognitive biases explain why we allow predictable surprises to occur.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
of developing a formal model). What we had missed is that Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter schools in New Orleans, a View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio Diaz, for example, rose to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna