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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
point out that they may benefit politically connected capitalists or bail out inefficient firms. We study the effect of loans and equity investments of the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) and find that they do not have any consistent effect on firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
regulators and auditing firms to approve its use. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210058-PDF-ENG Scooter Lindley: The Formation Call Lena G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-036 Factors affecting decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
number of the recent high-tech firms that have issued stock to the public. Insiders still rule. A minimum of required committee work is done. And investors seem not to have been too concerned about governance, given the meteoric View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
may lead to dishonesty (as shown in prior work), and dishonesty may lead to creativity (the hypothesis we tested in this research). In five experiments, participants had the opportunity to behave dishonestly by overreporting their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
face in labor markets, they would want managers to use it more,” Koning says. When they examined product performance over time, they found that on a platform where nine-in-10 users are men, typical female-focused products showed 40... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
large numbers of global firms adopting company-wide English-only policies, Neeley has spent years studying how the policy affects non-native English speakers. For example, her research into a Japanese company that required all workers to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
correspond to the official hierarchy of titles, whether chief executive, head coach, manager, or lord-high-anything-else. Dusty Baker was firm on this point: "Your coaches may not be the leaders. They're in charge of their... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
and performance in most organizations but require effective leadership to succeed. This note summarizes the conditions leaders can create to increase the chances of creating, managing, and participating in successful teaming environments.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
but only by the firms that have employee longevity and a valued ... way of life." This may not mean retaining everyone, however, as Horacio Cavallero suggests in commenting that "I have always thought that it was very important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess interest payments," the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Periodical:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the effects of mandated disclosure on the design of contracts and induced behavior in the presence of career concerns. We analyze the impact of two key properties of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving strategic planning in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on marketing strategies for View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample of 4,278 listed U.K.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
manufacturing business. The 777 is a tremendous, terrific airplane. And he's got a record of performing and delivering and cutting costs under very difficult circumstances. So he seems to be quite an unusual guy, and at least, judging... View Details