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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
basic business operations, reduced payroll by 35,000 employees, and updated and consolidated its inefficient IT systems. To refocus and reenergize employees, he also implemented a number of policy changes. Bonuses and variable pay, for example, were tied to overall...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice perspective to hypothesize that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
long ago that live streaming was thought to be a luxury possible only when the capacity of the internet could be expanded to accommodate storage and uploading capabilities demanded by the new services. Now it’s commonplace; we take it for...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the CEO who happens to run the firm. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, we find that equity issues depend on changes in Q and returns to a greater extent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
easier for me to approach Japanese companies. However, a small number of companies in the midst of restructuring declined to become the case site and said that they would like us to write cases when their companies' performance has...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender and is instead driven by beliefs. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
programs each year. Achieving this goal starts with transparency. To that end, the School’s fiscal 2015 financial results are reported in detail in the Supplemental Financial Information section. The balance of this letter is aimed at reporting on the School’s...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
managed poorly, the organization's capacity to innovate effectively may be impaired. The authors suggest eight guidelines for managing steward-creator conflict more successfully. These guidelines include (1) Keep talented creators around,...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
gift from Seth (MBA 1982) and Beth Klarman, will combine the elements of a large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum. Seth Klarman is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based...
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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
origins of the social psychology of creativity, trace its arc, and suggest directions for its future. Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation Authors:Cynthia Barnhart, Douglas S. Fearing, Amedeo Odoni, and Vikrant Vaze...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
performance of procedures rather than for accurate diagnosis and effective prevention. Aspinall and Hamermesh call for coordinating regulation and reimbursement so that incentives are provided for the right outcomes. Finally, the authors...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Abstract—As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. We propose that peoples’ perceptions of government and their levels of engagement with it can be reshaped and enhanced...
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Dina Gerdeman