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  • February 2015
  • Article

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Corporate Finance
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  • 18 Jun 2015
  • News

Working Out With Your Co-Workers Is as Bad as You Think

  • 07 Jul 2010
  • News

Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award

  • 13 Apr 2022
  • News

Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) - Finding a Deeper Purpose

  • Web

Program Requirements - Doctoral

Topics in Organizational Behavior Empirical Technology and Operations Management Two doctoral elective courses Two breadth courses Operations Track requirements (Modeling Emphasis) : Advanced Optimization Stochastic Modeling Empirical... View Details
  • September 2016
  • Article

Monitoring Global Supply Chains

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information about suppliers' conduct. But little is known... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Transaction Cost Economics; Industry Self-regulation; Auditing; Codes Of Conduct; Supply Chains; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Globalization
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  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

political beliefs. The strategy was to measure the “extent to which a voter whose family moves to a new neighborhood during their childhood adopts a political behavior similar to their permanent-resident peers in that neighborhood,” the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
  • Background Note

The Pandemic's Impact on the U.S. Food System

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note is intended not as a comprehensive account but as a starting point for discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. food system. Written in late 2020, the note describes, in part through the voices of industry leaders, how the pandemic... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Leadership; Change Management; Safety; Health; Health Pandemics; Disruption; Adaptation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • June 2018
    • Article

    Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged

    By: Clarence Lee, Elie Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
    We study how digital service firms can develop an active customer base, focusing on two questions. First, how does the way that customers use the service postadoption to meet their own needs (personal usage) and to interact with one another (social usage) vary across... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Engagement; Adoption Routes; Word-of-Mouth; Digital Marketing; Bayesian Estimation; Customers; Communication; Consumer Behavior; Marketing; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science
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    • October 2015
    • Article

    Hormones and Ethics: Understanding the Biological Basis of Unethical Conduct

    By: Jooa Julie Lee, Francesca Gino, Ellie Shuo Jin, Leslie K. Rice and Robert A. Josephs
    Globally, fraud has been rising sharply over the last decade, with current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Science
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    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    now is that our intrinsic survival mechanisms—such basic behaviors as how to enter a building, or bring in the mail, or greet a friend—require conscious thought in a way they have not since toddlerhood. The services and businesses that... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter

    Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Waves in Ship Prices and Investment

    By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
    We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on capital in the dry bulk shipping industry. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but forecast low... View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Price; Investment; Shipping Industry
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    • December 2004 (Revised December 2005)
    • Case

    Nectar: Making Loyalty Pay

    By: John A. Deighton
    Loyalty Management UK (LMUK) manages British supermarket chain Sainsbury's frequent-shopper card program, called Nectar. LMUK uses Sainsbury's sponsorship as the magnet to attract other retailers into a profitable, multisponsor loyalty network. Examines the economics... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Networks; Marketing Channels; Advertising Campaigns; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Great Britain
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    • 29 Nov 2013
    • News

    Money advice: Don't spend less, spend smarter

    • 31 Aug 2021
    • News

    Impact of Returning to Offices on Employee, Manager Morale and Productivity

    • Web

    Research Community - Doctoral

    creation of the School's intellectual capital. Current Students & Alumni Ta-Wei "David" Huang Marketing Omar Olivarez Technology & Operations Management Justine Murray Organizational Behavior Faculty Professor Maria Roche Strategy... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model

    Keywords: by Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin & Andrei Shleifer
    • 11 Jun 2024
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

    As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman