Role Of Expectations In Macroeconomics - Publications - Faculty & Research

2008
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The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

materialize. That’s far longer than the typical 18 months in asset management, the authors note. Deliberate hiring strategy Brown and Keith A. Lee, the firm’s longtime chief investment officer (who assumed the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

and principles of trade; the role of religion; civic duties, which includes chapters on topics such as modesty and fairness; and a number of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

is an important point. There can be sharp differences. My study was primarily aimed at uncovering what factors may affect the magnitude of the impact. For instance, I expected my results to show that albums... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones in the Soconusco. "It's a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

forecasts for the firms issuing debt and equity securities. Q: Last summer as part of an SEC settlement, the ten largest U.S. brokerage firms were required to provide clients with a second independent source View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

in sessions she facilitates, the role of followers. She observes that, in her work, "even leaders (agree) that when they are a follower they... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

putting selection decisions in the hands of the powerful, as the saying goes, invite the fox into the chicken house? How do we make sure the right people end up with power in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first foreign investments View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

2018
Article

Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture

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02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Their comments concentrated on ways of getting women into positions with the power to hire and promote. Seena Sharp suggested that “Gender equality will be achieved when both women AND men participate in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

word for it: www.hiddenbrain.org. Question: Who is your role model and why? Cohen: My role model is, honestly, the better version of me. It’s that Professor Cohen who wakes up... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

05 Jul 2023
HBS Case

What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

and in many circumstances,” Raffaelli says. “But the trap is when you rely too heavily on one orientation, the environment shifts around you, and you expect that it will produce the same sorts View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

important in creating expectations about a new market category. Third, the processes of reinterpretation and value construction are particularly explicit and overt View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

of this and other questions will no doubt generate further investigations regarding the role creativity plays in organizations and how managers can best cultivate and deploy it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

fade after this contagion, but there will probably be more outbreaks in the decades to come. This means that we can expect our physical structures to change, too. Think of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

banks understand the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

may be expected to follow some standard process, especially if you work in a bureaucratic organization where everyone has their own defined tasks and there is a certain way of... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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