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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
and terrain of the course to match most closely student needs and interests. While we expect a strong student base from among our own MBAs, we are scheduling the course in a timeslot that will accommodate a group of committed...
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- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
Series, No. 15325, September 2009 Abstract Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
propose the Attention-contingent Advertising Strategy, a framework to match the most effective approach to the quality of attention contingently available. As the value of attention rises, marketers need to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
triggered a desire to become an entrepreneur. He did sales at a startup marketing company and thought, “I can do this. This is really fun.” He graduated with the belief that building something would be far more fulfilling than...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt Disney Studios, and watched...
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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
Literally millions of people have found dates through online match-making services, so who says the Internet is isolating? The problem for many users, however, is that initial matches are often imperfect—even frustrating—because the...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Flip Klijn Abstract We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,...
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- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
way out of pension plans, while still making good on their obligations.” Although companies often match those contributions, they are under no obligation to continue to do so after retirement, and employees can't rely on a predetermined...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those who View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
binding. Relaxing either of these two conditions causes matching to take place later, when more information about applicants' qualities is available, and consequently results in higher efficiency and fewer blocking pairs. This suggests...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
just on clicks and not on calls and direction requests, I’d be less inclined to think that Yelp ads work for these businesses.” Ad effectiveness best for small businesses In recent years, internet advertising has become the fastest-growing View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
potential to supercharge innovation, because we can prototype more ideas and share them with each other much more rapidly. That's on the supply side of the economy. On the demand or marketing side, the new technology may allow us to View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match...
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Carmen Nobel