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- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
carefully, can open a box full of unintended consequences that ultimately harm rather than help the organization. The financial crisis of 2008 was partially fueled by origination bonuses paid to bank loan officers who were incented to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
the peak of the market a significant fraction of institutional money was controlled by young managers, thanks in part to rising prices for tech stocks, the researchers say. We asked Greenwood to discuss the research and its implications... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Sociologie du Travail. Sean Silverthorne: What are homers and how prevalent is the practice? Can you give some examples? Michel Anteby:... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
ingredients, and some farmers who are seen as wasteful keepers of their lands. “Perhaps no economic system is viewed with suspicion by so many people around the world as the food system,” writes Goldberg, who is recognized as the creator... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
overall database. Tony Mayo, executive director of the Initiative, describes the project and what business leaders can take away from it in this interview. Sean Silverthorne: Can you describe the genesis and mission of the Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
At the dawn of the digital music era, record labels went along with a pricing scheme devised by Apple that they are still paying for today. The idea to "unbundle" albums into separate tracks sold for 99 cents each suddenly... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this conversation: business entrepreneurs and the multinational... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
example, he argues, fashion industry competitors could agree among themselves to collectively manage resources to reduce the water pollution caused by their manufacturing processes. The beef industry could agree to collaborate on... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
issues, the Joint Center held a symposium in February 2010 on Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance." A new book, co-edited by Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky, managing director of the Center, collects papers... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that companies experienced lower sales and retrenched by cutting payroll, R&D, and other expenses. Indeed, in the years that followed a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet businesses, despite the fact that... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as consumers, and the roles to be played... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
football. “I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover effect into academics” "The primary form of mass media advertising by academic institutions in the United States is, arguably,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
What stories were readers like you diving into this summer on HBS Working Knowledge? Your interests varied dramatically, everything from how researchers use machine learning technology to predict CEO performance to the power of rituals in relationships (and business,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
on the New England Patriots. By virtue of their fame and wealth, professional players are the target of all kinds of business opportunities, most of them bad, Johnson continued. "We are easy prey to a lot of potentially bad... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
Sam Hayes That sparked a lively debate with Domini. While shareholder actions are important, they often don't get the job done, she said, listing a string of corporate abuses from slave labor to environmental decay practiced by publicly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne