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The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption
Published:October 27, 2010Paper Released:May, 2010Authors:Diego Comin and Martà Mestieri Executive Summary: To anyone who observes the world, it's pretty clear that a country's poverty level is at...
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a...
Published:October 27, 2010Paper Released:September 2010Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, John Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende,...
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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology...
Published:October 28, 2010Paper Released:9/26/2010Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Executive Summary: At what point in the corporate food chain are big...
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Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at 'Up-or-Out'...
Date of Event:May 10, 2010 Speakers:Kathleen McGinn Gender and racial inequalities continue to persist at "up-or- out" knowledge organizations such as law firms, making it difficult for women and...
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How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Published:November 1, 2010Author:Carmen Nobel What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The...
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Do bonuses and quotas motivate the sales force to sell more? A new paper sheds light on how different elements of a compensation plan can enhance sales productivity. Harvard Business School professor...
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Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster.
Published:November 2, 2010Paper Released:September, 2010Authors:Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca M. Henderson Executive Summary: Executives at public companies are always under pressure to "meet the...
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How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?
Published:November 3, 2010Paper Released:October 2008, revised July 2009, September 2010Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Executive Summary: When Fitch Ratings took on Standard & Poor's and...
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Why Do We Chase Stars?
Published:November 4, 2010Author:Jim Heskett How many times have you seen this happen? An organization seeking to make a senior management change goes after an outsider with a reputation for, and...
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The Work-Around Culture: Unintended Consequences of Organizational Heroes
Published:November 5, 2010Author:Anita Tucker "Work-around cultures" are pervasive in health care. Employees tend to work around obstacles, often feeling like a hero in the process, without solving...
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How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
Published:November 8, 2010Author:Carmen Nobel An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor...
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The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis
Published:November 9, 2010Paper Released:October 2010Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Executive Summary: From 1982 through 2007, U.S. advertising agencies...
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Accounting scholarship has done a good job of providing a better understanding of how markets and users process accounting data. But it has moved slowly, falling behind fast-moving advancements and...
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One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy
Published:November 12, 2010Author:Robert Eccles What a company externally reports shapes how it behaves internally. The key question is, "What should companies report?" A new reporting...
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Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
Q&A with:Frank V. CespedesPublished:November 15, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities...
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Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
Published:November 18, 2010Paper Released:October, 2010Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Executive Summary: The corporate payout that shareholders periodically receive--dividends or...
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The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
Published:November 19, 2010Author:Nitin Nohria Editor's note: Harvard Business School in mid-October played host to the 2010 Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan. Under...
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Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of...
Published:November 19, 2010Paper Released:October 2010Authors:Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Executive Summary: Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of...
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Published:November 22, 2010Author:Robert Simons Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor...
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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
Published:November 23, 2010Paper Released:October 2010Authors:Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr Executive Summary: Economists have long recognized that innovation is central to economic growth and...
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