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  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

conducted with two of its sponsors and five independent experts. The interviews were conducted beginning in 2003, over the four EURO project life cycles starting in 2000, with a primary focus on the tournaments taking place in 2016. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

School Case 811-064 Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

actual sale of a business. Q: Let me ask you the question people frequently ask me. Can you really teach entrepreneurship? HS: For many years, the message from the School and from the faculty was, "Why would you waste your time and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our evidence is inconsistent with a simple Bayesian model and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

the severity of damage: while major disasters had a negative effect, smaller-scale disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' intercorporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

growth. The case traces the evolution of Under Armour’s brand and describes how the company chose to extend or not extend its brand into adjacent categories and markets in the past. Now Under Armour needs to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

firms headquartered in the United States have performed well since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the interplay of regulation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand function contains unknown parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

http://hbr.org/product/samuel-slater-francis-cabot-lowell-the-factory-system-in-u-s-cotton-manufacturing/an/814065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-014 Donfeng Nissan's Venucia (A) The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

appointment if the consultant was removed from the McDonald’s account, and the deal was sealed. Easterbrook restructured the organization, increased the number of franchises, boosted pay for employees, and introduced all-day breakfast, which was wildly successful. By... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

sales and distribution channels, seek instead to leverage their existing brands and structures. Entrants, in contrast, simply create new ones. The problem for the incumbent isn't that the challenger can spend more; it's that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

managerial structures within a single supplier hastens improvement. Our focus on the internal structural dynamics of suppliers extends the existing decoupling literature and provides the first empirical investigation of internal buffering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

(Study 1), manipulated (Study 2), and when the opportunity to cheat is randomly assigned (Study 3). We extend our findings to a workplace context, showing that threatened individuals who lie on a job application feel more capable than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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