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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
individuals might experience in organizations. Whereas craftsmen in the aeronautics plant I studied dealt with these tensions in a very peculiar manner—by creating artifacts—other populations react differently. Contingent workers by... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
bounds on the optimal weighting of priorities, and bounds on noticing information. The first category encompasses bounded rationality, the first bound to be discovered and studied extensively. The second category encompasses bounded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
maneuver strategy in the military. Much of the best contemporary thinking in this realm was advanced by the late Colonel John Boyd, a Pentagon maverick. His decision-making model has become influential in the United States and abroad, in View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
talent will be the decisive stroke for top leaders. In Hill's essay on "Leadership as Collective Genius" in Management 21C, she spells out what the creative process entails at the collective level, as well as ways that several company heads she has View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
encouraging them to participate in case studies and other research. The School hopes that highlighting these higher-ambition efforts could act as a template for other companies to follow. "I do think you are very important," HBS Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Business School case study details, big-name investors say they want to take bets on social justice startups like Blakeman’s, but few actually take the plunge—especially if the entrepreneurs at their helm don’t come from the same polished... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the norms of empirical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald Abstract The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
organization, no matter what its age or size. Richard Hamermesh: The theory and concepts about entrepreneurship—the research and the knowledge—have been around HBS for a long time. I would give particular credit to Howard and Bill Sahlman for conceptualizing the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn, their leadership effectiveness.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-108 Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems' Authors:Bettina Klaus and Lars Ehlers Abstract Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace