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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
link: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/TitlePrint.aspx?PID=362801 August 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
same-journal and self-cites are excluded. Our results thus suggest that despite potential conflicts of interest faced by editors, personal associations are used to improve selection decisions. August 2013 Marketing Science Complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
segregation, is just one example of the positive and noteworthy impact social science research can have on the world beyond academia. But many researchers today have trouble communicating with non-academic audiences and engaging the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
employees much more effectively—creating high-performance teams reliably, matching people to projects that fit both their skills and their interests, and dramatically increasing the probability that work will be productively creative. We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
considerable energy to reconstructing Winfrey's life and the path she had forged before founding Harpo (Oprah spelled backwards) Productions. The women saw the project as an entrepreneurial story, according... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books about the... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied to the urgent matters of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
better infrastructure, and a better business climate. Another ingredient that makes this situation so sad is that the Greek people want to be part of Europe, and Europe wants them to be part of the European Union. Unfortunately, the government's promises that View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive affect, lower negative affect, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
confident of the market potential for mobile payments, they recognized the challenges they faced in scaling their current business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811029-PDF-ENG Office of Technology Transfer—Shanghai Institutes for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
could have been a satisfying coda to a project that had begun more than a decade prior. As it turned out, though, her research also led to a groundbreaking and successful lawsuit against the British government; an upcoming feature film;... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
should immediately reflect their priorities for their daily lives. Silverthorne: Given how ingrained group conflict is, is divisiveness and thus decline inevitable—or is there hope? Kanter: A classic social science experiment at a boys’... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
make big bets on projects I believed in." The implications for video retailers are a bit clearer. "As a retailer, you should expect that many titles will not sell at all, or in very small quantities, and organize... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. Q: What accomplishments are you proudest of? A: When we started out ten years ago, there were several things we were... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Accounting Research. Vol. 3, edited by C. Chapman, A. Hopwood, and M. Shields. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2009 Abstract David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace