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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
our sample period and a 3% increase in aggregate market capitalization. These findings highlight a novel mechanism through which long-standing corporate behaviors can be transformed. Collusion in Markets with Syndication By: Hatfield,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
was really surprising.” The finding is useful for employers because as DC plans continue to proliferate, companies face more of a responsibility to effectively educate their workforce, particularly older workers who may not have benefited from View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
months, while the lifespan for other product models is a maximum of six months. "This makes it very important for the company to have highly efficient internal management and sales mechanisms to survive," he said. BBK's DVDs are...
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by Julie Jette
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
risk-taking activities. However, since market forces were shown to be an unreliable mechanism for ensuring the soundness of the financial system over the long term, there is real pressure for making fundamental changes in the way we deal...
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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
the expanding practice of leveraging crowds for innovation and how crowdsourcing models have played out in different business environments. Lakhani notes, for example, that digital innovation has changed the models and mechanisms around...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
research agenda surrounding the geographic mobility of workers. He previously studied the productivity benefits of geographic mobility. His “ROPE” framework explores four mechanisms that impose costs and/or constraints when workers...
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by Kristen Senz
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy (and the lives of the 1%)? Is this something that market mechanisms can resolve? Or will responses like those Rifkin proposes be the answer? Or are these just 2013's issues of the day? What do you think? To Read More: Jaron...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
decision. Good leaders know when to think slow. All of us need mechanisms for helping us to know. Some elements of bureaucracy can be included among the devices. But, as Ganesh Ramakrishnan said, " we probably (need) to enrich the...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
members' prior experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of diversity in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that diversity creates. We use detailed project- and...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
reflect not a reversal of early mistakes but an effective sequence of organizing; and (2) why firms may benefit from unnecessary overlap between departments. They conclude that a period of decentralization and unnecessary overlap can be seen as organizational View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
away from objective valuations and recommendations; in place of these efforts, analysts may be mechanically issuing optimistic recommendations for all firms to curry favor with managers. The dynamics of this game between managers,...
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- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
of grant and this will surely dissatisfy some. These options are also likely not well suited to middle management and may only be useful for CEOs, senior officers, and directors. Mechanisms would also need to be developed to ensure that a...
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by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
Don't wait for the rest of the industry to act first. Just get started. Contribute, through action, to building pressure that pulls on the rudder and ultimately changes the course of the ocean liner. Of course when you're changing social systems, it's hard to know the...
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