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- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions
conditions. While such reviews are published anonymously, Zhang cross-referenced the data with a government database from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that lists the racial percentages of employees at all US companies with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0986298603/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me= February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
to demand uncertainty." To accommodate real-time demand and diminish the risks inherent in "perishable" inventories, retailers depend on timely information gleaned from technologies such as product bar codes, point-of-sale scanners at the checkout register, and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
policymakers to develop regulations and practices that encourage competition, protect customers, and meet the needs of society. Digital technology: Enabler or disruptor? Companies around the world are trying to harness the potential of... View Details
- Research Summary
Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached"
If consumers view their brands as extensions of themselves, what happens when undesirable consumers adopt these same brands? I address this question by examining an issue that is of great concern to managers of high-status brands: the rampant spread... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
policies, the most obvious being a transition to more efficient agriculture. Other beneficial policies include accelerating the establishment of Protected Areas, ensuring that tree crop plantations are located on degraded land rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the business. I became deeply curious about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
when husbands were absent from the home, making it difficult for them to monitor women’s behavior. Men were away for various reasons: taking animals out to pasture, protecting them against predators and thieves, or going to faraway... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
look at the data and it's very clear. That since the early 1990s there's been a subtle and but pretty constant degradation in the average level of happiness in the United States. And in most developed countries around the world.... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
leaders need to start preparing clear answers. After all, the number of religious discrimination complaints has increased by more than 50 percent in the past 15 years, and settlement amounts have more than doubled, according to data... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne