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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
neuroscience, sociology, and anthropology to unpack fear as a discrete emotion and to elucidate its effects on workplace silence. In doing so, we move beyond prior descriptions and categorizations of what employees fear to present a...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
to SEC concerns over pooling misuse. I also find evidence consistent with lobbying support for SFAS 142 increasing in firms' discretion under the standard. Agency theory predicts such unverifiable discretion...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
matches, especially for firms likely to be financially constrained. The effect is associated with the discrete change in label from investment-grade to speculative-grade, not with changes in continuous measures of credit quality. We do...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
people at more than one hundred organizations.) Before long, we discovered that something greater was afoot than what our original research design had allowed for. The field known as "communication," which had long been a discrete...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and the demand-induced death spiral, which is brought about by a shift in sales mix from labor intensive to technology intensive imaging services. In addition, this case offers an opportunity to develop the class discussion in multiple directions, at the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the collective interest levels of the angels can lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding is positively correlated with higher survival, additional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
understand the delicate interplay between negotiation and coercive power. Speaking of the U.S. failure in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Treating force and diplomacy as discrete phenomena caused our power to lack purpose and our...
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by Michael Watkins
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
from the prior year to $138 million, amounting to 18 percent of the School’s total revenue. The HBS endowment currently consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds established over the years by individual donors, corporations, and reunion...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
troubled financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs whose ex-CEO was the then Treasury Secretary. The U.S. government moves to dismiss the case arguing that it has wide discretion in times of crisis, but a federal judge allows the...
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Anna Secino
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
practice in the India market. The mission calls for continued financial performance and market leadership, as well as greater emphasis on healthy products, natural resource management, and employee empowerment. PepsiCo India and other regional PepsiCo business units...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
total revenue. The HBS endowment currently consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds established over the years by individual donors, corporations, and reunion classes. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with executives using View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
business and technology-related elements. It addresses the limitations of prior work, in that it i) is based upon the actual architecture "in-use" as opposed to planned or "idealized" versions; ii) identifies discrete...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross: In our experience, the best tact is the "sandwich" approach to organizational change: drive the concept from the top while developing skills and a track record at lower levels, usually through pilot programs in discrete...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
where the firm chooses capacities in two technologies in stage one, demand uncertainty resolves between stages (as does emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade), and then the firm chooses production quantities. As such, we bridge the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
evidence of the efficacy of problem solving when disclosing problem information. The method's application to 166 discrete scientific problems from the research laboratories of 26 firms is illustrated. Problems were disclosed to over...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed...
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Sean Silverthorne