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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status quo. Empirical research has been difficult because we lack data on comparable private firms and because View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

President of Product Development and cofounder, closed on a $41 million investment round. Their firm was one of the hottest companies in the health information technology field. They provided core data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Future Vision

will be crucial. In the arena of digital, data, and design, it’s clear that digital technologies and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations, business models, and businesses around... View Details
Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG]) information, including data produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), is growing. Using data from Bloomberg we analyze this interest from a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

employers, underscoring how changing the salary of one worker can affect the behavior of other employees. “These externalities can have important implications for the provision of incentives within the firm and for pay transparency,” the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

(CEJST) breaks down the different dimensions that qualify a census tract as a DAC, and its data could be applicable in other contexts as well. One of the foundational pieces of how EJ applies to the world is understanding the existence of... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to acquire a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

New Urban Order

the vehicle, and up to 1,000 meters ahead, in order to drive those long stretches of highway safely, saving the human drivers for shorter distance pickups and deliveries in cities and towns. The company had 70 trucks on the road throughout 2021, with safety operators... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • 31 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

says Amabile. “We wanted to investigate idle time, in part, to raise everyone’s awareness of how widespread and pernicious it can be.” “With idle time, the organization is often hurt by it, and it’s not enjoyable for employees either” With the help of survey View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

Consumer Reports. And in the short term, almost any firm that downsizes its packaging may experience a backlash. We saw it with coffee, with Dannon's yogurt, with diapers, and with snack foods. However, while I don't have broad View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/a-better-way-to-tax-us-businesses/ar/1 How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure Authors:Anil Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2017
  • News

Improving Health Care Delivery

new career path. “I became interested in the intersection of health care and finance, and that led me to HBS,” says Jeffrey, managing partner of the health care investment firm Great Point Partners. “HBS gave me the toolkit I needed to go... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

and also adjusted for the size of the package, so per-unit (e.g., per-ounce) prices really didn’t increase much for a long time. What we’re finding instead is that firms were producing products at a lower cost. Overall, markups on these... View Details
Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details