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- 08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015
companies navigate the tricky terrain. Leaders should ask themselves four questions: Was there a violation? Was it core to our promise or mission? How will the public react? Are we committed to change? As a general rule, the more central... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
interpretation, the trend-chasing behavior of young managers reflects their attempts to learn and extrapolate from the little data they have experienced in their career." Did the young fund managers also play a significant role in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
identified our pool of great business leaders, we organized the data by the decades in which business leaders initially came into the CEO position or founded their companies. We chose to evaluate candidates based on the beginning of their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and 2020. The View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions. Rather than simply accepting their fate and dutifully chasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
or a combination—can catalyze leaders' listening skills, reveal what does or doesn't work inside the organization, highlight hidden challenges and opportunities, and generate essential competitive intelligence. It can promote engagement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608068 Don Jenkins: Between Opportunities Harvard Business School Case 408-094 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
and is working through the details of a partnership with GoFundMe to help facilitate donations for businesses. Other platforms such as Uber are working on similar initiatives. Distrust of government aid The survey data also shed light on... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
economists dispel any uncertainty about whether it’s a tenable career path—the data suggest that there might be more economists hired in tech companies than in policy schools in recent years. To lure an economist As competition for talent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
second of these books, Exponential Organizations (“ExOs”), explores the impact of new technologies on organizations. These are organizations driven by such things as AI, robotics, biotech and bioinformatics, data science, and 3D printing.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
for development, both companies develop the data they need to make a decision. Then each company separately decides if they want to work on it as a joint compound or not at all. "If we both say yes, it becomes a joint project,"... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on average there is a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
General (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in large urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne