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- 01 Oct 2000
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economies and cultures. Understanding this phenomenon of design evolution, the authors write, "is crucial to comprehending the opportunities and the risks that change creates." The authors describe their...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
MBA alumni, with the balance divided evenly among AMP, OPM, and PMD graduates. Participants got acquainted Sunday at a reception and dinner, and classroom discussions began Monday morning with Associate Professor Michael Watkins, author...
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Laura Singleton
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into the latter category." Professor...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25
outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to affect the decision. We then examine the labor market consequences of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
marginalized or less powerful,” he says. “Moving from one of the power actors, the provincial government, into another power actor—but one with less resources and little authority in the last century—actually fit where my religious...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2007
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Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
four years after the current president leaves office will be among the most consequential we’re going to live through. The decisions we make, or don’t make, will be of enormous importance to American history for the course of the 21st...
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Government
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2021
players, such as Just Arrived, to initiate change. They, in turn, pressure decision makers to create conditions for them to reach scale and depth. Ultimately, you see, they drive progress in each other.” “ The case presents a range of...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
patient, few actually engage them in meaningful ways to help with prevention and wellness, shared decision making, provider choice, expectation setting ,and compliance. The problem is that practical skills such as cost accounting and...
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- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
City from its founding in the 17th century through 2008. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting the challenges of economic development at the city level. Enables deep examination of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
comparisons on the commission of a particular type of gaming: the self-downloading of an author's own SSRN working paper solely to inflate the paper's reported download count. We find significant evidence that authors are more likely to...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
elaborate a definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition builds on the analytical success of previous approaches while enabling the analysis of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
these dollars to a particular policy, and even though they want to do everything, they have to make tough choices,” Cavallo says. In the end, Cavallo hopes, “The insights obtained with these tracker-type datasets are going to be useful to make better policy View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
authorities when they contemplate yours? Does the political ethos favor state control or privatization? Does a wrenching political transition foster managerial uncertainty and decision paralysis? And so on....
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Martha Lagace