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- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
considered to be the first formal textbook specifically designed to "teach leadership". Since then, the field of leadership has exploded. A simple Google search of "leadership books" returns more than 84 million hits.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to their clients, the author has found... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
which diversified into dried fruit processing and a cab service, against a background of some economic and social progress, but also continuing economic, social, and security challenges in the country. In October 2014 President Ghani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-061 Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell Abstract A combination of concerns about climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
very little. The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (1,591) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6671.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Published: April 13, 2011 Paper Released: March 2011 Companies increasingly involve customers in the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Firms" presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Using Internet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
wireless RFID securities token business at the same time. I would argue that there is a natural phenomenon that you will see lightening striking more than once in the same place, and I would never fight it." Mullen agreed that... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
pure process focus to substance: the principles of designing agreements that create value and are sustainable. Inexperienced negotiators, says Sebenius, often unconsciously limit themselves to a one-dimensional process of sitting at the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
their decision rights within firms, but managers can seek permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dismiss proposals. We find that managers seek to exclude 39% of all proposals they receive, but the SEC does not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
petition for Chapter 11 and becomes a "debtor in possession" (DIP), its assets and operations are protected by the "automatic stay," a legal injunction that prevents secured creditors from seizing their collateral—and... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
same reasons as above — fresh perspective and added insight when it comes to bigger picture discussions. Security and compliance are often overlooked and where investors can probably draw on their own or other resources to ensure your... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Business School Case 607-150 Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage... View Details