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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
upgrades. This partly explains, I believe, why they have been among the first European companies to build strong IR departments. Now they can use IR to explain their business to stockholders as well as communicate to their many other stakeholders. Beyond this shared...
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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
HR, which is becoming more strategic across the enterprise. Tia, welcome to the podcast. Tia Silas: Hi. Thanks so much. So glad to be here with you.Kerr: Tia, maybe we could start with a little bit of your background and how you came to...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce will be hurt. Further, we hypothesize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
bring data and experiments into their organizations." However, the use of experiments remains spotty, with even data-driven companies still figuring out how to make the most of them. After observing several technology companies making the same predictable set of View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
to be ideal candidates to scale it to those greater heights. Yet, despite their passion for the cause, the Linns knew better than to make the commitment quickly. “HBS taught us to dream big while also using the strategic and analytical...
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- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
We see author-level ranking as one filter for navigating the scholarly literature and note that such rankings generate incentives for more open scholarship, as authors are rewarded for making their work available to the community as early...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets are associated with improvements...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
example, the trading commissions that remain are largely driven by big institutional investors who have brokerages execute their trades. Sell-side analysts have incentives to hype stocks to generate trading business through these large...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting,...
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Anna Secino
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
poor conditions exposed. In other words, the more concerned they are, the more likely they have more incentives to maintain better conditions. “Press freedom empowers journalists and labor activists to investigate and publicize poor...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The...
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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays...
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Sean Silverthorne