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- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
governance (ESG) information in China, Denmark, Malaysia, and South Africa using differences-in-differences estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run stock market and operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
on the Ideal Gas Law and its effects on a football’s pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure. TRADITION OF SUCCESS The class discussion evolved from whether the Patriots were guilty of doctoring footballs to the larger issue of how the team sustains such a high,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis showed that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
School's Alfred Chandler, the doyen of business historians, famously ascribed Britain's relative economic decline to the United States from the late nineteenth century to that country's proclivity towards family or "personal... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Internet is a relatively new phenomenon that is likely to continue to blaze a new trail in the online frontier. Smartphones, which were barely a blip in the earlier study, outsold personal computers in 2011, and yet in terms of... View Details
- December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
City of Charlotte (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina
Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-036, December 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-026.pdf Specific Knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
the group of elite firms, you need to be a responsible actor. Q: What kinds of things should investors look to leverage from this study? What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) to pay attention to? A: KPIs are the Holy Grail. Since... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350805 Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services By: Buell, Ryan W., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—As Americans' trust in government nears historic lows, frustration with government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
customer acquisition approach. Communication programs must be tailored to the desired customer segments. The engineering company, dealing with a relatively small number of customers (twenty to thirty), developed a so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
precision medicines (LPMs) as those that use one or more relevant biomarkers. We then further segment trials based on the nature of the biomarker(s) used and other trial features with economic implications. Given potential changes in the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel