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  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons within firms, particularly those with geographically dispersed managers-managers with the greatest information frictions. Following the controversy, pay in dispersed firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

information technology companies. When I analyzed founder versus non-founder compensation, I found that there is a large "founder discount" (averaging about $30,000 a year), even after controlling for all of the other... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

sees a problem with the larger system within which boards and executives function. Writing in the Washington Post, he and Andy Zelleke, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching:... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 05 Dec 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Publication:American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009) Abstract We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

health care, just about every aspect of our lives was affected by breakthroughs in information technology. Underlying the possibility and challenge of all this creative destruction were two larger systems: the global financial View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

information that was available to potential buyers, students evaluate the potential acquisition. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211088-PDF-ENG Executive Compensation at Talent Partners Richard S. Ruback and Royce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 1995
  • Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

and to use it to enact its strategy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52087 December 2016 Information Economics and Policy The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales, Revisited By: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

employee morale. Internally initiated bribery from senior management is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by the control systems of the firm is less likely to be associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

Silverthorne: What are market categories, and why are they important? Mukti Khaire: Categories are cognitive constructs meant to organize large amounts of information into manageable units. Goods classified as belonging to the same... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

college. However, recent changes to the state's accountability system necessitated greater focus on helping Codman Academy students meet this graduation requirement. Codman Academy's founding, academic model, leadership, and partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

requires turning away from what made them successful. The tightly integrated business systems that have worked in their home markets are unlikely to secure their future in global markets. Samsung has steadily navigated this paradox to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

always informed and always sees what the government is trying to achieve and can contribute to that effort beforehand, he said. Nkosana Moyo and Elliott Harris "After the fact, because they've been involved from the very beginning,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

Era for Raiders Author:Guhan Subramanian Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract The article presents information on corporate methods of preventing hostile takeovers by corporate raiders, such as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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