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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
potential move with the other members of his or her group to assess their level of interest and prepare them for the change. The second stage involves the integration of the team leader with the new company's top leadership. This part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
the merchandise layout, and especially, talking with and touching potential consumers. "I'd make up every woman who stopped to look," Lauder remembered. "I would show her that a three-minute makeup could change her... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
suggest that the cost of a delay of this length is upwards of 7% of the total cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I find that approval times are largely unrelated to technological novelty... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
bring about the downsizing of 219 drivers' positions. Lagrange had to figure out how to get the RATP employees on board, particularly drivers and trade unions. How could he convince them of the necessity to automate Line 1? How could he prevent the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
initial evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and well-being, these data offer one potential path to sustainable happiness: prosocial spending increases happiness, which in turn encourages prosocial spending.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in providing product recommendations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
2000) and social comparison (Festinger, 1954) lead to well-known cooperative effects within subordinate-supervisor pairs of the same sex and race, but potentially competitive effects among demographically similar peers. Analyzing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
find that diversity in the knowledge base of the potential solvers is very important for problem solving success. Successful external problem solvers brought solutions from fields that were quite distant from the problem field. We discuss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
chunk of potential managerial wealth, and shareholders can remain assured that incentives are well aligned. Managers will not, however, know if they should try to accelerate earnings or delay them. They will not know what stock price they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
on the New England Patriots. By virtue of their fame and wealth, professional players are the target of all kinds of business opportunities, most of them bad, Johnson continued. "We are easy prey to a lot of potentially bad... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
review research on the necessary precursors for interpersonal synchrony: the ability to detect a mind and resonate with its outputs. Further, we describe potential mechanisms for the development of synchrony between two minds. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
many companies responding to disruptive technology, their overwhelming response is to focus on the potential losses created by disruption. In fact, the time from when a disruptive technology initially emerges to the time it eventually... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the opportunity effect). We find that actual awardees of subjective rewards (penalties) exhibit higher (lower) subsequent performance, and that employees who missed out on potential rewards (penalties) due to management’s subjectivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
which emphasized a focus on customers. He also instituted a new, simplified performance management system, which rated managers' performance and advancement potential on a four-point scale. The system also included a forced ranking... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
reputational costs. Saving local newspapers isn’t Heese’s specialty, but he points to a recent trend of hedge funds buying up distressed local media outlets as having the potential to stabilize the market and resurrect local news. And... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
potential is offered my outstanding operations. Federal Express and L. L. Bean are superb examples of this. Finally, the operations landscape, like everything else, is being revolutionized by information technology (IT) and the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
enabling HBS to realize its full potential as a developer of leaders who make a difference in the world. The more the School supports and engages in social enterprise research, course development, student activities, and alumni... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls