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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is sparse; and electricity is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Being Uncomfortable at HBS
that challenges me to go beyond the limits I have set for myself - stretching my imagination, questioning the status quo, learning through failure, defending my assertions, and confronting my own fears.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
new working paper, Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life, Luca and three collaborators argue that cities have never been better positioned to take advantage... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
communication of soft information (across employees) for decision-making purposes. Contrary to prevailing views on the limited portability of soft information, our results provide evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
productivity and employment. There are few significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of marketing and sales activities in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
feedback to the employee may be adequate but of limited value toward the employee's development Most people manage for performance's sake rather than for development, he added. Managers who manage for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty
can go it alone and all great leaders depend on teams. It is a lesson I would take with me as I began to build my community here at HBS and a philosophy I will carry into my future careers. I learned that there are no View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
inducements in the form of tax-related incentives. The mechanisms that were used raise questions about benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Can, and should, the government influence entrepreneurial activity and venture financing? What are the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals and an evaluator's own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Scratching the surface
as many people as these two years will allow. Meeting others is by far what I was most looking forward to. Before this, I worked primarily in insulated, small-team environments where opportunities to branch beyond your project or group... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
core retailing business and AWS. Students are also provided with an opportunity to discuss operational diversification and its limits within the AWS context. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
"I would be very happy if both Google and Yahoo resisted these constraints. The real bottom line is people, no matter where they reside. . . . Please do not limit this discussion to China." Nicole... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
A few years later, the Immigration Act would add stringent country-specific quotas that limited the number of immigrants to the US and completely excluded people from Asia. But why do people oppose... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable option for governments and a voluntary option for restaurants. However, there is very View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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