Equality and Equity in Compensation
Why do some firms such as technology startups offer the same equity compensation packages to all new employees despite very different cash salaries? Jiayi Bao and Andy Wu present evidence that workers...
View ArticleThe Promises and Limitations of Big Data
Recent stories chart the rise of big data, its impact on business, and how it affects our lives every day.
View ArticleFlexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental...
Often, senior teams do not adopt an innovation even when the organization has the resources to do so. Using real examples, Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman theorize how the processes...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Billion-dollar choices at GE Capital ... Mental models and strategy ... Revisiting agency theory.
View ArticleMinorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues.
View ArticleTurbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
What makes some firms more resilient than others to large negative macro shocks? Raffaella Sadun and colleagues find that the internal organization of firms—specifically, the extent to which...
View ArticleA Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding...
Pauline Brown, a former top executive with French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, now teaches a course called The Business of Aesthetics, which culminates in a competition...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
The four minds of the customer...The personalities that yield innovation...Aston Martin's Second Century
View ArticleReinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the...
Since the 1960s, the United States has seen spectacular growth in wine consumption. Ai Hisano explores how businesses reinveted the image of wine. This creation of the new market, like other consumer...
View ArticleDigital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Digital labor markets are Internet-based platforms connecting workers worldwide with companies seeking to have tasks completed. This paper by John Horton, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton...
View ArticleLessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
Emerging markets are contending with a worrisome slowdown in economic growth accompanied by the build-up of corporate debt. Understanding this and other potential vulnerabilities requires knowing more...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Advice for those seeking advice ... Should CEOs become social activists? ... What companies don’t know about location.
View ArticleCan Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
Walmart couldn't do it. Now it's Amazon's turn to break the theory of the "wheel of retailing." Can Amazon succeed? Is the wheel model even a helpful concept anymore? James Heskett asks.
View ArticleStock Price Synchronicity and Material Sustainability Information
Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann, and George Serafeim seek to understand the characteristics of emerging accounting standards for sustainability information. Given that a large number of institutional...
View Article10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
The food industry is under intense study at Harvard Business School. This story sampler looks at issues including restaurant marketing, chefs as CEOs, and the business of food science.
View ArticleCellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing
Offering a visual perception of freshness, the expansion of cellophane packaging material dramatically altered how consumers understood food quality. Ai Hisano examines the importance of cellophane as...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
VCs with daughters are more likely to hire female partners ... Streamlining the US patent office ... Should the CEO also be chief strategist?
View ArticleHow an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
A scholar of colonial-era African history, Caroline M. Elkins had dramatic success turning prior knowledge into real-world action—namely, with a groundbreaking lawsuit against the British government,...
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