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- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
standards with international standards. I can't say what accounting standards will look like in ten years, but I can say that globalization will have been a major force in determining what they are. Given this situation, many accounting View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
presents the results of a study that investigated the use of the underdog effect in marketing. The idea of triumphing over disadvantages by impassioned determination is said to be a powerfully positive image, which can lead consumers to choose a brand over its larger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
capitalists to fund big bets on technology, research universities that mint PhDs, and a clear legal framework that protects intellectual property. In stark contrast, companies in developing countries lack these advantages. But does this...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
business strategy is closely tied to its research strategy, which emphasizes extensive internal discovery and development capabilities leading to organic growth along with explicit external alliances and collaborations to supplement its...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
They do not convince employees that management wants to know the truth and is ready to act. Quite the reverse—all too often, these methods lead to cynicism, and cynicism is the enemy of commitment to change. In one highly regarded company...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
inducing people into believing they can expertly control the ball will affect the way they perceive themselves as business influencers. In fact, Norton spends most of his time thinking about thinking. So it's somewhat ironic that his latest line of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
management to the wrong kinds of tasks. As he put it, " in places where creative solutions are needed time management or micro management is a difficult concept to grasp." Francis Wade said that "Our research reveals that...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
The Subcommittee: My name is Benjamin Edelman. I am an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where my research focuses on the design of electronic marketplaces, including designing online marketplaces to assure safety,...
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- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing...
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- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but our unconscious mind—our ability...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
performance metrics should be included in assessing the sustainability performance of a company. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624510/ March 2015 Journal of Applied Finance Wall Street Research By: Healy,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities,...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Research has long shown that organizations shape members' identities. However, the possibility that these identities might also be desired and that members might benefit from this...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
"misbehavior," as the researchers term it, behavior that is largely unseen by the advertisers or even the affiliate networks themselves. Since they are only paid if a purchase is made, these websites use technology to convince—some...
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- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
press) Abstract In contrast to using controlled laboratory experiments, which offer a clear method for inferring cause-effect relationships, I will be using data from three personal stories to provide opinion and analysis. I will tell the...
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Martha Lagace