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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a degree. There’s a big financial barrier there, so that hampered social mobility. But also, there’s a big academic barrier that doesn’t need to exist. Right? Actually, there’s no correlation between academics and job performance, so why...
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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
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
healthcare, and microfinance. In the process, a case is made that these disruptive commercial models are a key component in the response to poverty, and that there is a social role for financial returns. Accordingly, the basic goods and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition, certain firms, specifically those...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
comparing social relations, for instance prebrokering versus postbrokering, reveals a broker’s impact; (d) brokering can influence others’ relationships positively or negatively; and (e) information and incentives are two principal means...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
language, and then landed in financial services, where I got a deep dive in great experience around markets. So landed at Shopify and have embarked on what I think has been a pretty interesting HR—or what we would call “talent...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
from the atmosphere annually. The revised Section 45Q substantially increases subsidies for direct-air capture (DAC), which removes carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, and makes the incentives available to smaller companies—changes...
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- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
already dominated by Microsoft, and given that the financial motive is secondary, it will be very hard for anyone to oust Linux. The organizational stream of research on OSS has identified several drivers of motivation to contribute to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
smart about finding what we call “new career pathways,” where if you start life as a financial analyst and you get sick of it, you don’t have to stay in the CFO’s department for the rest of your life, you can become a cybersecurity...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
fast. What has recently happened in that environment is it has become necessary to hire senior people with real experience. In September, we had the good fortune of hiring a world-class CFO. She had worked at AT&T for 15 years in various View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
surprising that many retailers have adopted loyalty programs as a convenient mechanism of meaningful differentiation. Ultimately, loyalty programs should offer incentives for shoppers to reduce their store switching by offering them...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss tax policy in general and reform in particular with Professor Matthew C. Weinzierl and Mihir A. Desai,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
there are some potential advantages in that Microsoft has an incentive to understand if I’m going to work well on teams? Am I a creative person? And they also have some capacity in saying, “You know what? A bachelor’s degree in artificial...
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