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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Chambers announcing further capital expenditure in China but facing growing criticism by U.S. Congress and others for Cisco's human rights record. At the same time, Cisco faced a powerful domestic competitor...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Kellner (soon to succeed Bethune as CEO), Deborah McCoy, and others. Akin Ongor had Saide Kuzeyli, executive vice-president of human resources, as his sidekick-in-chief; she shared the duties of coaching the people of Garanti Bank to...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations, 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements, or 3) absorbing...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge There is a saying that every decision is political—not just in terms of ideology of left or right, but also in terms of...
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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
right now in our research, but it appears that the distant ties are much more important than the clustering. Clustering has a negative influence, unless each cluster contains people with a variety of backgrounds. However, in addition to...
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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
attempt to merely deflect international criticism about the countries’ human rights records. In fact, the researchers found that the treaties corresponded to better factory conditions. For each international...
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Santos Abstract—The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
State. And, he has immense resource wealth to finance his efforts. I don't know if he'll succeed politically, but if he does not abandon human rights and constrains political power, then Russia could be a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
information is being used and being sold?" As we show in the case they’re being profiled right down to minutiae. They can pretty much identify who you are. Kenny: Let's go back to the beginning of the case. What was sort of the...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
future do not show this want/should pattern, and we discuss a potential explanation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Conversational Blindness: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
the dimensions of human behavior, decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
years later and was named the School's first George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Business Administration in 1963. One of Christensen's greatest strengths in research and case development was his ability to notice and analyze critical aspects of View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
corporate) now needed to understand how and why they were doing so and to make sure that those edits were being made in a constructive manner. In a disagreement between human and machine, Belk allowed humans...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Creating Value through...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
availability, having the right product in the right place at the right time with the right label and of course with the View Details