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- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
direct or indirect? Are agreements constructed from general principles "down" or from specific provisions "up"? And so on. The bulk of this essay develops these two points but with some strong caveats against...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
or services, recruit new business, and provide constructive feedback resulting in product, service or process improvements. Employee/owners recruit talent to an organization while also providing ideas for new or improved products,...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation."...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
consultants. Instead, I modeled constructive conflict myself by creating a more challenging atmosphere in our executive meetings. This meant asking probing questions, insisting that managers present each situation in objective terms...
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by Bill George
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
constructive agreement. As disagreement and conflict intensify, sophisticated negotiators should expect biased perceptions, both on their own side and the other side. Less seasoned players tend to be shocked and outraged by perceived...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,...
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- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
using a precisely constructed matched sample, we estimate the effect of a scientist becoming a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI) on citations to articles the scientist published before the prize was awarded. We do find evidence of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
adaptation, emotion recognition skill has long been conceptualized as an individual-level intelligence. We introduce the construct of team emotion recognition accuracy (TERA)—the ability of members to recognize teammates' emotions—and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
megascale project: to construct the world's largest amusement park, called Dubailand. Examines various aspects of Dubai's background, world real estate and tourism trends, and environmental and political conditions of the region to...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
Taking this added step can enable you to complete the task proficiently and respond constructively to the needs of those on the receiving end. Q: At a company level, did you find best practices around necessary evils? A: For companies,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
randomly assigned to one of two groups: the "creative mindset" group and the control group. All were asked to construct sentences from sets of randomly positioned words. But in the creative mindset group, more than half of the...
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- 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007
compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Global Health team were also working to construct a framework for measuring both the social and financial impact of the company’s shared value initiatives, starting with the BD Odon Device. Cohen believed that creating shared value was...
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- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/311083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-043 United Rentals (A) In the spring of 2008, the recession had decimated the company's core business, construction equipment rental. The economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example, firms in sectors as diverse as View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
from the one or two products offered by Brand B." Q: You introduce the construct "assortment type" in the paper. What does the concept mean and how does it impact on brand share? What is an "alignable" assortment...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
instead take the sort of advice that they’ve constructively given to their clients for years. By using this challenging moment as an opportunity to address the root causes, they will better ensure that this situation does not arise again...
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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging...
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