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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
symptoms of projectitis and how to defeat it; what digitized processes are and the role they play in performance improvement; how to identify key metrics and develop a balanced measurement scorecard; how to sense deep customer and... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor—sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard... View Details
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest performance for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
investors become too passive, we might see inefficiencies at the corporate decision-making level kicking in.” The question for today, he says, is whether the pendulum has shifted too far toward passive investing in a way that hurts the long-term financial View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... and joins the ranks of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage, generating capital, and View Details
- August 2008
- Article
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
Publications February 2015 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
shareholders." Others raised questions that would have to be answered before deciding what to do. They included: How good has the CEO's performance been? (Noaman AlSaleh) How clear is the organization's contract with the CEO? (S.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
that robust verification mechanisms such as independent certification may be necessary for voluntary management programs to mitigate information asymmetries surrounding management practices. Implications are discussed for the industry-associations, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
"matching" technologies. “There is a lot of room for improvement in current corporate accountability reporting practices” Corporate accountability means "the obligation of a corporation entrusted with a duty to others to explain its View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
categories of Health Performance Indicators can offer up objective data about the current status of a building and identify meaningful fluctuations over time. How are these HPIs gathered and interpreted? With a combination of settings,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
beyond April 2001. With that in mind, questions arise about what capabilities GE's board should seek in Welch's replacement. Are there clues in the way Welch was selected in 1980? At the time, GE was led by Reg Jones, by any measure a tough act to follow. The company's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
recognized the opportunity—and necessity—to use their research to help leaders, companies, organizations, and governments navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic. This meant not only extending and reframing their research, but also... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne