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- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
consequences of the (surprisingly) limited extent to which social influence research has penetrated the field of negotiation. Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using various proxies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
Leaders The business of sports is a business that Laitsas loves, and he knows there are other passionate professionals ready to make their mark on the industry. There are a limited number of roles though and... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and sometimes View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
products. “The tech industry in general, young or old, can accommodate stretched goals, simply because digital can reach millions of people worldwide in one second, and all that they have to do is to create... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Most managers understand at some level the wisdom of the adage, "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Indeed, building the right professional relationships is critical for business success. In China, relationships are even more important View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
high-tech firms. In 2004, however, the cap expired, and the limit fell back to 65,000. As might be expected, there was an increase of lobbying on the issue following the decrease as companies tried View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
and limited to a short window of time. Consistent with theories of status, however, the effect of the prize is significantly larger when there is uncertainty about scientist and article quality. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
(For teaching purposes, the assortment of occupations was weighted more heavily toward those that Blinder had found to be offshorable and those with higher levels of education. The goal, Rivkin notes, was to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
enormous upheaval in the Communist Revolution that firmly established the Chinese Communist Party in charge of all things political and economic. If China is to live up to its promise, argues the new book... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
and previous studies of decentralization in China, I discuss this work according to the theoretical approaches (institutional, ideational, and socio-historical) used to explain the origins of regional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
women stood. "You are Harvard Business School graduates," Sandberg gently chided. "Why do you not automatically stand up?" Too many women, she said, limit their own aspirations because they think they lack what it... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Lincoln's own words, the case traces the development of the 16th president's leadership philosophy, ethics, and skills in the years leading up to war. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
characterizations could be easily read to imply that one’s BATNA could not itself be a negotiated agreement. Second, and more seriously, common descriptions of one’s BATNA as the “best outside option, independent of the other side”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne