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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
lobbying and maneuvering on individual pieces of legislation and regulation, businesses need to use collective institutions to define and promote a positive, values-based, non-partisan agenda. That will allow them to regain credibility in...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
2019 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership By: Hill, Linda A. Abstract—In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
increasingly complex processes (including product R&D) and to reallocate resources away from long-term research have played a central role in the erosion of the US industrial commons. As we shall discuss, each of these individual...
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
made more aware of their supervisor's tacit approval. In other words, the give and take operating in gray zones is made more explicit. A second important reason to see the development of moral gray zones is the high burden bestowed upon View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development of a strategy map and scorecard for the district. She then helps cascade the scoreboard down to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by J. Dutton and B. Ragins, 265-275. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2006 Abstract White-collar workers increasingly rely on group interaction rather than individual expertise to generate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
multitude of complex problems plaguing the U.S. health system. The United States over the last 50 years has focused most of its health resources on providing medical care for individuals after they fall ill. It has placed far less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
hospital industry. We posit that mandatory nonfinancial performance measurement has an information effect and a referent performance effect. The information (referent performance) effect arises because the new performance signals induce more precise posterior beliefs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons within firms, particularly those with geographically dispersed managers-managers with the greatest information frictions. Following the controversy, pay in dispersed firms co-moves more and is less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
until this point, momentum was a strategy employed nearly exclusively by hedge funds, and thus not an available investment strategy to most individual investors. This case highlights the difficulties in implementing this "mutual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
Changing that to a completely new business model would be more than difficult because individual users seem well served, advertisers like the reach and targeting ability on the platform, and shareholders can’t complain either. It is...
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by George Riedel
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
the structure of the industries in which their firms competed. Bogle and Kelleher died earlier this month, more than 40 years after each made their mark on the competitive landscape by leading organizations that provided both low cost and differentiated service. They...
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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
handle on food safety there may be challenging because China has a highly fragmented agriculture system, Quelch says. For instance, one Chinese milk brand may be taking its supply from hundreds of individual farmers—a potentially risky...
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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
at the expense of others. You have the license to be a bank because you're supposed to make the world a better place. Instead, when a group of banks makes very poor decisions, all because individuals were doing something that was better...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
towards enhancing its cluster, both individually and collectively through trade organizations. The Cluster Mapping Project reveals the detailed patterns of cluster location across the United States. It allows an evaluation of whether a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
raising money from the very people that they would otherwise be called upon to criticize and condemn," Mills concluded. While he praised the breadth and depth of the conference sessions—which covered topics from enforcement to auditing—he reminded the audience...
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