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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
pronounced for firms with ex ante lower-quality information environments: firms with lower analyst following, lower market capitalization, higher analyst forecast errors, or higher analyst forecast dispersion. Overall, the results are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
return on investment? Why don’t business performance metrics encompass the value of human assets? Fundamental questions like those can get lost in news headlines and in the normal course of business. Welcome to the Managing the Future of...
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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
challenging work environments. This article focuses on two such contexts—health care and education. The authors theorize differences in psychological safety based on work type, hierarchical status, and leadership effectiveness. Consistent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
the second. The firm's strategy consists of choosing what level of disclosure to engage in and how to price the service to consumers. These choices reflect the two revenue sources available to the firm, disclosure revenues and price...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His standout performance in the MBA Program led...
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Dean
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities trade...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
career.Fuller: Now, this is an era where companies are I think not only expressing, but sincerely embracing a desire to significantly and sustainably improve their performance on diversity and inclusion. What are you seeing in terms of...
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Terms of Use - HBS Online
(6 August 2020) 1. Introduction; Changes Please read these Terms of Use and the other Agreements described immediately below before registering for, accessing or using any portion of the Harvard Business School Online website (the “Site,” which View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
empirical analysis of a representative project, we find abundant evidence consistent with this characterization, and we proceed to discuss implications for platform design and entrepreneurial funding and unique and defining...
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world who have consistently overcome formidable barriers to achieve truly worthwhile purposes. In a closely related project at Harvard, faculty have conducted detailed interviews with former American Secretaries of State—Henry Kissinger,...
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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
interested in hearing your thoughts about is how AI will affect, not algorithmic traders or performance marketers, but everyday working-class Americans.Aguh: I think, for AI specifically, what’s some of the promise that I see? For...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize its potential. The activist also proposed two director candidates to join Dow’s board....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to...
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Carmen Nobel