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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How did people’s work preferences... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How did people’s work preferences... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
conversations on talent and organizational structure . Directors also advise on everything from go-to- market strategies and how to ramp up growth to enterprise risk management and leveraging AI. Joining a startup board, either as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
portrayed by the takeover artists and shareholder activists of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as by business school professors influenced by the work of scholars such as Oliver Williamson and Michael Jensen, as incompetent at best, and... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
perceptions, emotions, and motivations," Amabile says. "We call this 'inner work life,' and we found that it directly influences creativity and other aspects of performance." Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates attempt to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
derided as making American firms uncompetitive relative to their foreign competition. So, there are easy ways to take political potshots at the current system from both sides. Q: Do any of these taxes really influence how corporations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
factors: business operations, venture financing, technology, suppliers, people to recruit, and customers. The structure and composition of CIC floors has only a modest influence on these immigrant versus native differences. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
pharmaceutical firms that rely on creativity," she says. "Today's fast-changing global markets place increased pressure on companies of every kind to continuously create new products, services, and competitive strategies if they... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
at the age of 13 to study the cello at the Julliard School in New York and later studied with the acclaimed soloist Lynn Harrell (also a student of Lev Aronson) at USC's Thornton School of Music. “That makes Ben a third generation artist View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
some new sign of the apparent retreat of government in the face of the relentless power of free market forces. Yet, in reality, contends HBS associate professor Willis Emmons, international trends in deregulation and privatization do not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
the same. Reading and thinking are still very important.” One dramatic change has been how the media and entertainment industry has become a key driver of the American economy and a powerful influence on the rest of the world. Moore is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the Irish-born explorer Ernest... View Details
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49544 November 2015 Annual Review of Economics Peer-to-Peer Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, and Jonathan Levin Abstract—Peer-to-peer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help the transition to a View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect provides a novel theoretical channel through which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Development (ARD). The letters, memos, and speeches demonstrate Doriot's influence within ARD and his unwavering commitment to research and development as the cornerstone of successful investments. This collection also contains annual... View Details