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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
controls for sustainability performance ratings, analyst forecasts, insider trading, institutional ownership, earnings quality, and other voluntary disclosure activity. Changes in material sustainability disclosure are followed by changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
the survey at alumni.hbs.edu/skydecksurvey. Beyond the survey, if you ever want to drop us a note, you can find us at skydeck@hbs.edu. We’d love to hear from you. Ok, now for today’s show. Cloudflare is a web performance and security... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
from the rooms. Those sorted participants who liked competition performed twice as well on the test, putting in more hours and coming up with better results than the unsorted groups. At the same time, the researchers inserted another... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
do exactly what they're told and disregard every other consideration. While a human would have understood that the sites' designers wanted to maximize quality as measured by clicks, the algorithms maximized clicks at the expense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54596 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract— We examine whether and to what extent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Exploration creates new knowledge, enabling organizations to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. Enduring organizational performance requires ambidexterity, the ability to sustain both exploration and exploitation. Various... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
dramatically improve performance for startups, a setting that is rife with uncertainty and change, something all businesses are feeling acutely at this moment. In this work, we find that startups that adopt A/B testing tools grow faster... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
gender diversity, and this might then affect whether or not diversity leads to stronger outcomes. In a recent study of 1069 leading firms across 35 countries and 24 industries, researchers found that gender diversity relates to more productive companies, as View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
company, especially during reorganizations. The legal system protected creditors strongly. That is why I found that the corporate bond market as a percentage of GDP (a common measure of the development of these markets) was higher in 1910... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
and measure methane emissions and leaks. We applaud Congress for coming to consensus on such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the 1990s, as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
results we are likely to get if we stick with Option A and stay in the current game as active players. We use the same definition for the currency of the future results as we did with the Satisfaction dimension, and again we use a very simple View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
competence is complete. . . . I should like to send you a camera and associated equipment and film as a personal gift.” (2) Land asked Adams to serve as a consultant to test Polaroid cameras and films. Assessment of the performance and... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
U.S. performance as a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). As an alternative, to finance this expansion, Shurgard received a proposed deal from a consortium of banks and other investors where they would provide private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units throughout Latin America and how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
companies are converting the delivery of their offerings to the as-a-service model. The next disruption will focus less on the delivery model and more on the value delivered. Bernshteyn’s value-as-a-service model is the simple idea that View Details