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  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success

cookies. Annual proceeds from the sale total close to $450 million, $300 million of which supports scouting activity. "If there's a more effective fundraiser in the world, I don't know what it is," Baxter remarks. "But it's also a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

the quality of their own work and to deliver it effectively to clients. Groups as Agents of Change Authors:J. Richard Hackman and A. C. Edmondson Periodical:In Handbook of Organizational Development, edited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

Summing Up Respondents to the latest "What Do You Think?" column expressed a general lack of concern about adverse effects from Microsoft's settlement with the Federal Government for a variety of reasons. Charley Cullinane... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

findings weren’t an isolated situation due to the 2013 tax hike, Pérez Cavazos and Silva went back and looked at the companies’ long-run cash effective tax rates. In line with their other results, they found that the companies with more... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    Chandler’s Legacies

    I was delighted to have the opportunity to visit HBS as the 2019 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar. Alfred Chandler Jr has played a very important role in my academic life. The first time I read the railroad chapters of the Visible HandI was... View Details
    • 25 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 25

    cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Aug 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

    the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. His multidisciplinary research, published in twenty five books and numerous articles, has dealt with the human aspects of management,... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Marked Managers

    biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career imprint? Organizational career... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 28 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 28, 2016

    raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

    Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 30 Jun 2009
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    First Look: June 30

    effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jun 2020
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

    unacceptable. Still, Madrick argues, there may be more reason to hope now than ever before. Rather than attempting to treat the symptoms of poverty, we might be able to ameliorate its worst effects through a single, simple, and... View Details
    • 07 Dec 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
    • 02 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 2

    heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. We find that the effect of alumni networks is close to 60% as large as the effect of state-level considerations. The network View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 19 Jul 2016
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    July 19, 2016

    proposals on material versus immaterial issues affect firms’ subsequent ESG performance and market valuation. We find that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample are filed on immaterial issues. We document that filing shareholder proposals is View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne