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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
a building not far from the White House. To the young receptionist who buzzes in a visitor, he’s “Mr. Mac,” best known, perhaps, as the restless, elderly gentleman down the hall. To those of an older generation, he is, of course, much...
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Garry Emmons
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought Theory predicts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
phenomena—and make meaningful predictions in rapidly changing global markets. In particular, Dafna gravitated toward questions related to the challenges new automation and digital technologies pose to job security and businesses. “Historical evidence and economic View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Learning to Code at Business School
class. So, there are actually right and wrong answers. ;) Sloan: It was different in a lot of ways: Instead of class participation and finals, the class was built mostly around the problem sets and final project (plus a midterm and final). It was very practical...
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are...
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Amy E. Dean
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Case 806-093 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806093 Boat Building Exercise: Four Modes of Propulsion Harvard Business School Exercise 606-148 Purchase this exercise:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial...
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by Kim Girard
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
FIELD 2 about research and testing assumptions, and put them into practice launching a micro-business,” Lindsay says. She and her team are building My Friend Bert, an online “date itinerary” service that creates unique date options for...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
decades of mismanaged immigration, lack of growth, and the threat of the euro bringing down the EU. The book offers a multidimensional, irreverent portrait of a decaying Europe and the causes and consequences of its decline. Breakthrough Entrepreneurship: The Proven...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part,...
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by Carla Tishler
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
of past successes to predict that more successes are in store. The theory in use is that if you find someone with a track record and with the right-stuff attributes, then he or she can successfully manage the new business venture. But in...
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by Michael Raynor
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive...
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- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
post-task free time (e.g., surfing the Internet) can mitigate the collateral work pace losses due to idle time. Through examination and discussion of the effects of idle time at work, we broaden theory on work pacing. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods...
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Martha Lagace