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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
campus, encounters follow more predictable patterns. At specific hours, notably before the start of class periods, orderly flows of people move smoothly from one location to another. Despite some modifications, the campus paths originally...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
makes us feel good.” Hang in there While life might have seemed simpler and more predictable prior to the coronavirus invading our world, that’s probably an illusion. A cluttered home will probably still be messy when the virus abates....
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and their impact on organizational climate, which predicts successful outcomes. We addressed this gap with a field experiment suggested by Toyota's problem-solving process. We tested three related process improvement activities: (1)...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
is constrained. We assess these predictions by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a redistribution of...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
content to attract "eyeballs," and as a result, popular content may be excessively supplied. We empirically test this prediction by taking advantage of the launch of an ad-revenue-sharing program initiated by a major Chinese...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
plan’s rationale, noting that climate-change efforts had cost Unilever $200 million in 2011 and predicting a political crisis if something was not done about inequitable growth. “Total profits of the consumer goods industry will be wiped...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
predict changes in the number of overall establishments and restaurants in County Business Patterns. Contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can generate an algorithm that is able to explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
rules of the game? Companies like to know what the rules are and they like stability in those rules. I believe that businesses will welcome a higher level of certainty and predictability that I expect will come with the new...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
half-time. The return to research was fueled by a breakthrough from the team—a new theory arguing that the cortex is not only processing all the information our senses are collecting but processing locations too. “Each little part of the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
enfranchised in the solution,” Whitman stated. “We need more explanation, and we need more leadership across the board.” Mahindra of India’s Mahindra & Mahindra called for a “reset” and a return to fundamentals. “Banking is about...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation that didn’t add up. Viana View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
the founders predicted that NEA would grow in size and significance, but the challenges associated with achieving these goals were formidable. How could NEA scale and generate favorable returns from a large...
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Sean Silverthorne