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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for each store's employee...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
elusive search for properties that make organizations adaptable. This paper argues that the research program on dynamic capabilities needs to be reset around the fundamental strategic problem facing firms: how to identify and select...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
consumer marketing, etc.) in the event that a reverse launch strategy is pursued. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511036-PDF-ENG Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process Richard S. Ruback and Royce...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
strategic choices for retailers. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a “self-matching policy,” which allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and store prices to consumers. In...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
motivate employees to learn, may only yield performance benefits among those who are already highly engaged and motivated. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55888 In Search of Organizational Alignment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements of market design that make this possible, including View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
was called the Knowledge Management (KM) Appliance, but as Web 2.0 tools came into wider use, this evolved into what the company called "Cognizant 2.0" (C2), which was designed to ensure that the KM Appliance capabilities for View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as random. Examining nearly 370,000...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
assumptions and attentive to ways reason and emotion shape their own behavior and those of others around them. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=404104 The Rise of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
programming. The airwaves were literally jammed. In the face of such bedlam, NBC led a charge on Washington in search of regulation and the allocation of frequencies across the spectrum--the property rights I mentioned before. The result...
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by Jim Aisner
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from...
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by HBS News
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
because Patagonia was a private company. The Tompkins dual strategy of exit from business and application of entrepreneurial skills to conservation resulted in large environmental gains, including sequestering and storing an estimated 80...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
circumstances. "Even learning something small can give you pleasure and a sense of accomplishment." To pique your own curiosity, consider setting regular learning goals, whether it’s figuring out a challenging piece of software, trying a new recipe, or View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in...
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Dina Gerdeman