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- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
accounts for a lot of the effort they put in and also the performance their performance," concludes Lakhani. "The effect is as strong as paying them for their work." This is hardly just an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-104.pdf Elections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
threat is different from what retailers have faced in the past. Although Walmart took an enormous amount of market share in a diverse set of categories, many retailers were able to respond to and effectively co-exist with Walmart. Related... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
needs of different consumer groups. Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Hervás-Drane, assistant professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, found that competition has three main View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: Critical Questions For Becoming A... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3
and Michael Slind show how trusted and effective leaders are adapting the principles of face-to-face conversation in order to pursue a new form of organizational conversation. They explore the promise of conversation-powered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
those sales? Should ads be text, images, video, or something else entirely? Should measurement be performed by an ad network, an advertiser, or some intermediary? Market participants have chosen all these options at various points, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a happy outcome. ©iStock/vadimguzhva In order to test their... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the job... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Manager as Mentor: Effectively Managing a Diverse Workforce," had employed the word "mentor" to lure Harvard managers to the early-morning session. What Thomas prefers, he explained to the group, is the more tongue-twisty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
minded people make financially unsound decisions. In one computer lab experiment, for example, Larkin and colleagues showed that participants would perform better on a word search puzzle if they were told that previous participants had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel