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- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
payoff than the firm. In our model, the horizon mismatch occurs because managers take actions based on longer-term consequences than the firm cares about. That is, the firm's preferred actions are myopic relative to the manager's career.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
studio executives appear to favor simultaneous releases of movies around the world, fewer of the phased rollouts we've seen traditionally. Does your research support this strategy? A: There are several factors that drive a preference for... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
identity/privacy in terms of being an asset? A: I want Amazon to know my identity, in particular my taste in books and music. I know that they respect the value of that knowledge so that the issue of sharing the data won't ever come up. I want American Airlines to know... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
all the turnaround situations I've witnessed, we should remember that leading a corporate turnaround isn't a one-size-fits-all process. It requires that CEOs pay attention to the specifics of a company's problems and that the leaders bring their own View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
company-wide communications, encourage employees to put their preferred pronouns in their signature, and create a culture that encourages the use of gender-neutral pronouns when asking folks about their private lives as it relates to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
created. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55573 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract— We use an experiment to show that employers View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
these assessments more complex and add more classifications, we limit the first run-through to just two alternatives per dimension which then generate eight distinct profiles that we can use to help us assess what we want to do. Even if you View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
women's winning chances. In contrast, in the less prejudiced states, there is no decline in new women candidates and a significant increase in the vote share and winning chances of women. The evidence is consistent with backlash driven by voter and party View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
requires careful structuring of the transaction, cautious pricing of the shares, and wide diversification of the pockets of demand by the underwriters. These elements explain the concurrent convertible preferred stock offering, the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous firms. For our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to relax, to engage with and develop... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
heterogeneous preferences for work versus leisure. Evidence from six other countries reveals similar findings in economies at different stages of development. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Economic Transition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Christensen said. However, additional information is not what students want. In fact, many would prefer to pass the course without having to read at all. What product would allow a student to pass a course without doing the required... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne