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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company officers, and even play interactive games showing the challenges and trade-offs the company faces in making difficult decisions. Thanks to these kinds of One Report practices, these companies actually document their commitment to sustainability, make better... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

long-standing business leaders from emerging economies across the globe. They offer compelling insights into how entrepreneurs based in these countries survived turbulence and change, and the lessons that can be learned from their... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

  Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly arrived with the rise of big... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Total focuses on explaining how their cash use is prudent. Similarly, BP has a large base of retail investors but in many ways it treats them as just slightly different versions of its institutional investors. That is, BP assumes the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

will be possible to both maximize shareholder value and be a good corporate citizen. Indeed, we should encourage managers to find the "sweet spot" where their actions generate a robust return for their shareholders without exploiting externalities and thereby... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

implications of this result for both innovating managers, as well as researchers in the field. We also assess how future work in this area might proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a banking sector that provides liquidity and has excessive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

cost increases to consumers. This was no longer possible after deregulation. Most of the legacy carriers had a considerable amount of difficulty adjusting to the new environment, and many of the airlines went through several failed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

differed from the conditions she had encountered at Palm Inc., which she had joined in 1992 (following a decade in the computer and software industries), just after the company was founded to develop handheld computing devices. Like E Ink, Palm sought to create a new... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

there are important implications for firm boundaries, design, and identity. The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda Authors:Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano Publication:The Rate and Direction of Inventive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

capture of accounting regulation by segments of the financial-services industry. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule/ar/1   Working PapersCarry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Carry-trade View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

practices creating a learning and innovative organization; and tracking results in terms of the "four Rs" of retention, referrals, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. It shows "the culture cycle" at work in practice View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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