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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
department's activities. Activity % of Time Spent Assigned Cost Activity Quantity Cost-Driver Rate Process customers orders 70% $392,000 49,000 $8 per order Handle customer inquiries 10% $56,000 1,400 $40...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry, but it also View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50643 Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of uncertainty, in order to understand the impact of this...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in order to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
challenge of counting backwards from 2027 by 17s. The test was conducted in front of a panel of judges, who were instructed not to smile. The researchers collected saliva samples from the women seven times throughout the experiment in View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
and even though the entrepreneur holds all of the market power in the model. Furthermore, although perfectly competitive investors expect zero alpha in equilibrium, the nature of the three-way interaction results in a correlation between View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Based on the fact that stores prioritize carrying products for which local demand is high, we test the hypothesis that introducing the STS functionality increased the retailer’s overall sales dispersion. We find that, on average, the contribution of the 90%...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
leader in this: In 1913, Harvard's Bureau of Business Research published its first bulletin, which concentrated on the selling of shoes.) By the 1920s, sales management had "arrived." American businesses recognized salesmanship as an essential component of...
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by Laura Linard
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to capture value by manufacturing safe assets. See Mark’s other research here, Stefan’s other research here, and Adi’s other research here. More Info Rate-amplifying demand and the excess View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
Nor are authentic leaders always humble or modest. It takes a great deal of self-confidence to lead through very difficult situations. Authentic leaders are sensitive to the needs of others. One author has postulated, and I paraphrase,...
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by Bill George
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/InternationalArbitration/?view=usa&ci=9780199812356 Working PapersThe Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy Authors:Timothy Derdenger and Vineet Kumar Abstract Several key questions in bundling have...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and relationships with peers, subjects that might be too View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
decisions and shipping policies in determining purchase outcomes and profits. Consumers are less sensitive to shipping fees than to product prices, but free shipping for orders above the minimum is a strong...
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by Sean Silverthorne