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- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
competition, customers are better off "letting a thousand flowers bloom," fostering fierce competition which results in a de facto standard if users prefer compatibility over individual fit, or a split market, if fit is more...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Periodical:Research on Emotions in Organizations. Vol. 3, edited by N. M. Ashkanasy, W. J. Zerbe and C. E. J. Härtel. Amsterdam: Elsevier, provisionally accepted Abstract Teams' emotional skills can be more than the sum of their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are increasingly addressing environmental and social issues that also improve their economic value, for some of these issues individual company action is costly. At the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
Science 22, no. 4 (July-August 2011) Abstract This study examines the relationship between social position, both within the field and within the organization, and the likelihood of individual actors initiating organizational changes that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business...
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- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
show that (a) the allocation of fund economics to individual partners is divorced from past success as an investor, being instead critically driven by status as a founder; (b) that the underprovision of carried interest and ownership—and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
relationships and if these three individuals can be successful partners. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809098 PublicationsContent vs. Advertising: The Impact of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
editors, teachers, and individual scholars to act to foster these characteristics. Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai Authors:Ramya Ramanath and Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Nonprofit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
with the most experience and those who have worked most recently-precisely the individuals who would recognize that this is a gift. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/oDesk.pdf Search Diversion and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
prosocially on others (giving gifts to friends, donating to charities) rather than on themselves (buying flat-screen televisions). Q: What are the psychological factors involved when it comes to individuals and feelings they encounter...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is...
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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
parties than reliance on financial incentives alone. In particular, many individuals place high value on such character virtues as honesty and integrity for their own sake and are more than willing to sacrifice material gain to maintain...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
the German economy, is an open question." As business historians, we need to know more about the managers as living, breathing human beings. What this distinction between owner-entrepreneurs and investors means for individual...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very little about the circumstances under which individuals are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
central planner who can structure work and then expect individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper considers the operational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
ensuring the well-being of victims, but also on the well-being of those who perform the necessary evils. In addition to the typical training that many companies run for managers, and the individual preparation managers do on their own...
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by Martha Lagace