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- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
of discretion that an investment advisor has on their client’s assets, interaction may require substantial work at both the investment advisor home office as well as with individual clients. Based on our interviews, securing the... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
discrete change,” says Raffaella Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a co-author of the new study. “The notion that we will go back to a point in which at least some firms will... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Effective management and leadership often depend on the capacity to envision and bring about sustainable agreements among these parties. This is true with respect to discrete transactions such as mergers, labor contracts, and out-of-court... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
government organizations disclose information to general public without reservations and let them make use of the one relevant to them." Walter Blass was among those who would err on the side of more transparency, arguing that "the more that is shared, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts managers will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
Companies that spent decades understanding consumer-buying psychology traditionally assumed that specific products could satisfy discrete consumer needs. Now, they will need to define consumers by their fundamental life intentions (the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
analyzing it along with Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Lisa B. Kahn of Yale School of Management; they present their findings in a new working paper Discretion in Hiring. "Welcome to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
line of research examines how best to schedule work to improve operational performance. This literature typically takes the perspective of a central planner who directs individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
more discretion than historically afforded in financial reporting. Ex post, managers can claim their unit value estimates were not realized due to factors outside their control, claims that are difficult to objectively falsify. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
vividly in these articles is the multidimensional quality of our competitiveness problem. Despite what political rhetoric may suggest, there are no simple fixes. Discrete reforms in tax policy, regulation, corporate governance, K-12... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
the horizontal model, smaller competitors are sustaining themselves on discrete pieces of the business. RAMBUS offers the core technology, NVidia specializes in design, and TSMC offers fabrication services. "The key strategic... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
limitations of prior work in this area. DSMs allow us to i) identify discrete layers in the IT architecture associated with different types of components and ii) capture data on the dependencies between components, hence assessing their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations By: Gino, Francesca, Celia Moore, and Lamar Pierce Abstract—This paper combines experimental and field data to examine how those with discretion over punishment... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to drive value is to measure... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
first interviewees in Argentina and Chile were from business cultures which were discrete and did not welcome publicity. Our initial target was to transform research on business in emerging markets by providing a wholly new source of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
used in settings with discrete transfers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53978 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
discrete industries. First, there's in vitro fertilization, probably the most obvious piece. This is a service industry, like medicine in general, which caters to infertile couples. Then there are what I call the component industries,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
matches, especially for firms likely to be financially constrained. The effect is associated with the discrete change in label from investment-grade to speculative-grade, not with changes in continuous measures of credit quality. We do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne