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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
$16 billion, and nearly 20,000 jobs could be attributed to campaign staffing, consulting, and lobbying. The political media also benefitted, with most major news outlets posting record advertising revenues last year as a result of...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
that neither view is quite right. Although the new forms (built upon a half-century of research on and experience with self-managed teams) can help organizations become more adaptable and nimble, most companies shouldn't adopt their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
for its milk glass, which it made more of and for a longer period of time than any other company. But it was once recognized as a glassware innovator, pioneering several kinds of glass that are now usually attributed to other companies....
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- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a "bridge year." GCY...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the argument that counterfeit competence is driven by self-protection, we find individuals do not predict they would experience such a boost (Study 5) and that cheating after threat offers benefits similar to those provided by other...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
adjustment for older faculty who had taught only in a single-sex classroom. "One senior professor was always hesitant to call on me until I spoke to him about it," says Wilkinson. "We got that settled." It was a new experience for many of...
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Hanna, Julia
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
by the threat to the core business and encouraged by the CEO's personal involvement, the management team repeatedly asked for heavy, upfront investments of resources. D'Arbeloff's response was critical. He pushed them to find new markets and new opportunities that...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically omission and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn privately and noted that thus far...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
markets relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases Selection of 'Should' Choices Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Revised August 2007. People often View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief descriptions are provided of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
Arnold recalled that he even offered advice to his then all-male students on the importance of choosing the right woman to marry. Doriot believed deeply that a healthy family life was essential for a businessman’s success. His former students unabashedly View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
up. With firsthand experience both in a world of no competition and in one of intense competition, he is decidedly in favor of the latter. A strong, innovative competitor "makes you more efficient in operations and more creative in...
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by David Stauffer
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to show that newspapers with greater reliance on classified-ad revenue View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
products, which is costly for retailers, and they may not buy from the retailer again. They might also be costlier to serve given their limited experience with online shopping. Making sense of apparel buying To learn about new online...
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Michael Maples
an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the...
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Sean Silverthorne