Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate...
By exploiting the unique features of Japan’s JPX-Nikkei 400 index, this paper by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang examines how membership in a stock index serves as a...
View Article'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
In some professions, successful job hunting depends as much on a healthy body and cleared mind as it does on a well-performed interview, says Ethan Rouen.
View ArticleFirst Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Can Waze navigate its own growth challenges? ... Hospital management practices can help (and hurt) maternal outcomes ... Seeking prestige, Japanese companies perform better on the Nikkei 400 stock index.
View ArticleThe Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and...
This paper by Urooj Khan, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen offers evidence of potential issues with the current United States system of taxation on foreign corporate profits. A reduction in the US...
View ArticleProductivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before
Want to be more productive at work? These recent studies from Harvard Business School researchers offer tips on everything from organizing work flow to paying attention to the weather.
View ArticleRethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance
Among this paper’s contributions is evidence that different types of pay disparity matter in different ways to firm employees, and that disparity created by pay that is unrelated to the economics of...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
You’ll come around ... Is a deeply religious business culture ready for an acquisition? ... How historians should look at emerging markets
View ArticleResearchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
Scott Duke Kominers, Nikhil Naik, and colleagues use Google Street View to show how cities are changing and help them improve over time.
View ArticleEmerging Markets and the Future of Business History
This paper by Geoffrey Jones and colleagues argues that there are important commonalities about the business history of countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America despite differences between...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
Today’s CEOs are public figures, with responsibility to uphold their company’s mission and values, says Bill George. When these values are violated, even by someone as powerful as the president of the...
View ArticleCompanies Love Big Data but Lack the Strategy to Use It Effectively
Big data is a critical competitive advantage for companies that know how to use it. Harvard Business School faculty share insights that they teach to executives.
View ArticleInvestors as Stewards of the Commons?
George Serafeim lays out a framework suggesting that index investors and adequately funded asset owners are a potential mechanism to build and sustain pre-competitive collaborations for addressing...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, August 22 2017
You want to publish my salary where? ... How to punch up your sales training ... Young leadership confronts a toxic culture.
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
You want to publish my salary where? ... How to punch up your sales training ... Young leadership confronts a toxic culture.
View ArticleOp-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Donald Trump, the "business president," has recently had serious disagreements with some of the most powerful CEOs in the country. Gautam Mukunda discusses the responsibility of business leaders to...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
How social class shapes high-performing women ... The problem with knowledge repositories ... Starting a high-frequency-trading hedge fund.
View ArticleTo Solve The World's Biggest Problems, Should Industries Cooperate More and...
George Serafeim has a theory that if industry competitors collaborated more, big world problems could start to be addressed. Is that even possible in a market economy?
View ArticleUsing Language to Build a Global Company
In her new book "The Language of Global Success," Tsedal Neeley describes Japanese tech giant Rakuten's five-year effort to adopt English as its lingua franca of business.
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