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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
to become strongly mobilized to oppose any change. They can often do this successfully until the wall begins to collapse and a crisis allows leaders to overcome their resistance. Far too often, a select group is successful in lobbying the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small protected niche markets such as...
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by Benson P. Shapiro
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
financial goals over time—specifically, how organizations set goals, structure activities, select members, and socialize those members. In my own research, I see that these four pillars both shape and are shaped by the culture of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Here we explore the effects of "sleeping on it" on preference-based decisions among multiple options. In two studies, individuals viewed several attributes describing a set of items and were asked to select their preferred item...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974...
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by Carla Tishler
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the challenges facing women arising from societal inequality, including lack of educational provision, and difficulties in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
petition for Chapter 11 and becomes a "debtor in possession" (DIP), its assets and operations are protected by the "automatic stay," a legal injunction that prevents secured creditors from seizing their collateral—and...
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous worlds. In particular, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
2011, she was selected to head the IMF. Since 2011, Lagarde built the foundation for the IMF’s adaptation to the realities of the 21st century. By 2017, shortly after Lagarde began her second term as the managing director of the IMF, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
selected the market and the product and stayed focused on both. If you get that right, you can get a lot of other things wrong and still succeed. Spar: RCA wasn't a company that grew the way IBM did. Instead, it was put together in 1919...
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by Jim Aisner
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
disclosure. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
ostensive attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a 1.3-billion-observations panel, we find the laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative responses, including the...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
instinct for choosing the right tools—Continental Airlines' Gordon Bethune, General Electric's Jack Welch, and IBM's Lou Gerstner are all examples. Others can use this framework to help select the most appropriate tools for their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into...
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Sean Silverthorne