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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors:Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, and M. Julia Prats Abstract Our paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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would be the ideal place to achieve all these 3 goals. It's very strong reputation and career support services allowed me to explore all types of different career options. With the strong foundation of the first year curriculum, View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
stakeholders. The specific design decision is to make a choice between thatch roofs, which are environmentally friendly, versus reinforced cement concrete roofs that the villagers desire for their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
negotiating situations, Wheeler cautions against making ethical choices on the fly. He advises asking yourself in advance five important questions that can help illuminate the boundaries between right and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
plan. Store managers, following this change, directed less attention to the prevention of inventory shrinkage and more toward sales-generating activities and made different process View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
that the appropriate leadership style did depend upon the nature of the task, specifically how certain or uncertain it was. However Vroom and Yetton defined the task as decision making, while the others were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 1991
- Background Note
Note on Sealed Bid Auctions
By: David E. Bell
Describes a simple approach to determining an appropriate bid for a sealed bid auction. View Details
Keywords: History; Management Style; Financial Management; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Bids and Bidding; Decisions; Market Transactions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Negotiation Style; Auctions
Bell, David E. "Note on Sealed Bid Auctions." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-140, February 1991.
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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given predictable, reliable, low-cost care) and iterative (the patient’s condition is unknown; tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Hong Abstract—When to sell a novel idea is a difficult decision for many innovators. Selling early has financial benefits. But a later-stage sale of a more fully developed idea may attract greater buyer interest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
cultural values (perceived social mobility) and differences among cultures (North America vs. Europe) to demonstrate moderators and boundary conditions of the positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
Rs” of momentous early choices made within the founding team—many decisions come at the outset, often before any mentors are involved. In the pre-mentor phase, founders should prepare as we do in the... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
By: Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Initial Public Offering; Price; Reports; Research
Feldman, Emilie Rose, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-102, May 2010.
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Can the school stay true to its mission? How will it find the funding? Through the story of Blair Jenkins, head of school, this case examines the difficult mission and funding decisions facing many nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
inventive activity in the economy. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel