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- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
policy may reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating towards low dividend paying firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the interests of their institutional shareholders. Evidence is provided that both effects are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old policies had... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
employees, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can promote operational flexibility, employee engagement, and tight strategic alignment. Groysberg and Slind have identified four elements of organizational conversation that reflect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
fail to focus on a variety of situation-specific (or customer account-specific) factors. We also urge vendors to go beyond just a descriptive tact focusing on the means of these variables, and to study their impact on response coefficients that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
tightest fit between actions and intended impact. An organization's choices must reflect its priorities. Once leaders have asked the right questions, the resulting clarity will help them with difficult choices they need to make to be... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
riches" is instilled in people very early. But in other countries, no such role model exists. The stigma attached to failure is not just cultural; it's also reflected in bankruptcy laws. For example, in Switzerland, where military... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
systems that are trained on past behaviors. This could lead to AI scribes being biased toward upcoding, reflecting volume-based revenue maximization incentives. What needs to be done? The promise of AI to improve provider well-being and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Shalene Gupta is a research associate. They co-authored the new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Earn It, Lose It, Regain It. [Image: iStockphoto/Robert Daly] What... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
that doesn't leave you with many options." —Lynn Paine "Perhaps we should credit the participants in our forums for their prescience," notes Paine, reflecting on an e-mail she received recently from a participant on how much the world had... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
four sections of the course, with 68 students in each section. Some 170 more students were wait-listed. The course's popularity is a reflection of its universal nature—it addresses quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long time, although changes in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
she and another colleague had notably different approaches to their work. “I was panicking because I thought, ‘Oh no, he can only like one of us! He can only like one of our styles!’” she laughs. “But then I remembered this research and thought, ‘Whew, so maybe he... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
available—for example, in cases where goods are produced by a variety of manufacturers. For companies with goods and services that depend on high fixed costs, such as research and development and overhead, simply providing variable costs may not accurately View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
rates to monetary shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects due to the existence of what we call "yield-oriented" investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects coming from "yield-oriented" investors. We find some evidence supportive of this channel.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
green. The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons By: Nagle, Frank Abstract—On the 50th anniversary of Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons,” this article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
charter permitting preemption of state law. The Internet is not bound by any one state, and the market for loans online is no exception—regulation must reflect this new reality. However, regulators should not simply mandate all federal... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Evian's baby&me features several adults dancing with toddler versions of themselves in the reflection of a store window. Only at the end of the 77-second video do we see a bottle of Evian, along with the slogan "Live young." Since its... View Details