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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
securities. "In 2004 and 2005 as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn't a particular problem because of the lag effect, because people who couldn't pay off these mortgages with toxic terms and exploding payment...
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- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay attention to how the mode of...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
co-authors of the report Building the On-Demand Workforce, join Bill Kerr. How can employers adapt their approach to talent and align management incentives to benefit from this trend? What are the implications for workers and what choices...
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build? And, in addition, how do we build incentive systems that inspire them to build over a long period of time? And when we started looking at traditional career tracks that exist in many different organizations, it typically looks like...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
incentives to do that. At the time of entering the collaboration with the JLCM, it held an oligopolistic leading position in its industry on a global level, reaching almost 80 percent of the Mexican market. Moreover, increasing its market...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
rights be protected as these new technologies are implemented? Another deals with those countries that are going under water. Who pays restitution for future damage and losses?” “Climate change is a governance issue. It’s a short step...
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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and large, nonprofit leaders tend...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the pace of change? And who is responsible for the lifelong learning workers will need to remain competitive in the digital economy? Employers have an incentive to create career paths, but many are increasingly unsure of how to go about...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
culture. We also find wide variation across variables for ratings consistency among analysts covering the same firm. On average, consistency is higher for sell-side than buy-side analysts, consistent with sell-side analysts facing greater View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
upgrades. This partly explains, I believe, why they have been among the first European companies to build strong IR departments. Now they can use IR to explain their business to stockholders as well as communicate to their many other stakeholders. Beyond this shared...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
good results, particularly if financial and other incentives are tied to these results and commitments are in terms of future goals and targets. This was the case at Natura and UTC; both companies were candid about whether or not past...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
mutual antipathy. Solutions to heal the partisan divide haven’t worked because they have failed to address the root cause of the problem: A wedge has been driven into American politics by powerful political, social, and economic View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Eleanor W., and Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others who are self-employed have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
young, and I started asking questions about his background and what he did, and he started asking me about how does he run a better operation, with this giant thing, because he had no experience. And we ended up talking for two and a half hours. I told him how to hire...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Wage and Hour Division, which basically makes sure that we are paying workers what they’re supposed to be getting. It is also the Employee Benefit Security Administration, which regulates every private benefit given by a company in this...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
strategizing and hiring consulting firms and waiting a long time. Second thing that people have learned during the pandemic is that, if you’re not an empathetic and caring company, you’re going to pay the price. You’re going to have...
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- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit View Details
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Sean Silverthorne