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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty while trying to appear in View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
progressed in different parts of one country. We could keep many things constant—the conflict's ultimate goals, the personality of the leader, the tactics, the kind of a political system they already have—and focus on the role of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
opportunities. Kyriarchy A complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression. // coined by theologian Elisabeth... View Details
- Profile
Evelyne White
demographics to target your neighborhood priorities in the bigger cities. —Fox (MBA 1990) Someone with deep pockets (Groupon?) is going to enter this space. It is a great idea, so go for the maximum impact. Try to do one large city that is close to you, that you can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of the Electronic Mail Game... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems." Nevertheless, there was enthusiasm for disclosure, perhaps using a system of disclosing "pay bands" within which holders of specific jobs are compensated. Pete described a specific example this way. "Back in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
owned by women and minorities control less than 1% of total industry assets. Less than one percent. This is the problem that our club has set out to address. “The industry’s reliance on personal relationships perpetuates a View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns, influenced by disclosure requirements,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Early Warning System that conveyed the bank's "risk view." Management started using these tools to frame important debates, such as the evaluation of divisional heads' performance at quarterly business reviews. The View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is well known that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights is associated with firm value. In this paper, we identify an important channel through which the divergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
important for any company doing business in multiple countries. While it is simplistic to suggest that there is no country effect at play in determining the success of companies—Deshpandé and Farley do not make that contention—their work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
of (systemic) invention. The opportunity, therefore, is to start reinventing the future health care delivery system that will sustainably deliver prevention and sick care in a post-COVID world. Amy C. Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights provisions, in particular,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
live.” CAMH, he is confident, will be leading the movement. Unspinning the COVID web These three stories provide yet another example of how COVID-19 has mushroomed into multiple interrelated crises and revealed underlying View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Jason Flood
that he had. “I realized that my college education, my relatively high socio-economic status, and my employer-provided insurance were privileges most of America does not have access to.” Improving a flawed system from View Details