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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
As executive director of Florida's aquarium project in Tampa from 1987 to 1993, for example, James M. Stuart (MBA '69) used spiritual practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out...
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by Ann Cullen
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
and introduce the concept of "institutionalized materiality." Starting with this paper, and in the rest of the series, we will also recommend how the credit rating model can be enhanced in the coming years to help build more...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; James P. Dougherty,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
to analyze the phases of American Express's card strategy over the past 50 years. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509027 Pfizer Inc: Building an Innovation Center...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
different lens—it focuses instead on the perspective of a middle-to-upper-level manager contemplating a potential assignment to lead an internal venture in a large company. Befitting this series, we build lists of important considerations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Robert S., and Mary L. Witkowski Abstract—The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
(Jones & Bartlett) With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, sophisticated compliance programs are now mandatory for healthcare organizations, and the penalties for noncompliance are more severe. This book prepares managers to build...
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- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
you’re trying to build something, and your dream is outlandish, people scoff at you. You have to steadfastly hold on to your beliefs and move forward.” “This business reinvents itself every three or four years. We’re now in the thrall of...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, a specialist in strategy and the dynamics of globalization, says that while market integration has made deep inroads in the last few decades, according to the evidence, it's still far short of what economic View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
paper on intergroup relations. Tested worldwide, both models represent revolutionary advances in understanding stereotypes and are among the most highly cited theories in social psychology. In addition to more than 80 articles and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Professors Williams, Lodge, Goldberg, and Salmon, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the School during its crucial middle decades and further benefit from their accumulated wisdom as to future directions for the institution they helped View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
equity fund. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406009 USG Corp. (A) Harvard Business School Case 807-090 Deals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal with USG's exposure to asbestos liability. USG was the largest...
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Martha Lagace