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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
certain settings. In particular we find that the impact of the changes on problem solving, standardization of work, and coordination improve the way that the firm learns and its productivity. Using a detailed case study we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
may file for an initial public offering by the end of 2011, according to the New York Times. "Groupon has attracted remarkable interest," says Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman. "With the economy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
things like happy hours and team get-togethers. Now we have Zoom lunches so people have an opportunity to eat lunch together. We have “bev bashes,” as in beverage bashes, on a weekly basis on Fridays. I do a bev bash every other week with... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
cause concern for private plans, I don't see that as a problem but rather as evidence that people see value in a public option. In the end, I think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim. Creating the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
strictures, the lack of schools, and her poverty, her education almost certainly will end there. Her family will be reluctant to let her go away to school because they will not be able to prot ect her.” The eldest of five children, Van... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
only I could think of a way to really butter them up. At the end of the tunnel I see that everyone's lights are on. It's 9:00 a.m.! Why are their lights on? And then I drive out into what was just a beautiful fall day, and it's pouring.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
interactions. We find that NGOs with similar goals end up using very different strategies and tactics to advance their housing agendas. More significantly, we observe that NGOs are likely to employ multiple strategies and tactics in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
However, the documented differences, when they are significant, between the level of optimism for the affiliated and unaffiliated is hardly impressive, which is perhaps not surprising. If one thinks of the competition to get investment banking business as a race, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
HBP. Dean McArthur was keen to see that I would do justice to his work, and he specifically wanted to give me more context on the original case and the protagonist. The key lesson in the original case was on the sorts of accounting practices that could hide a company’s... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
and rural landlessness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53164 in press Psychological Science Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior By: Lu, J., J.J. Lee, F. Gino, and A.D. Galinsky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After substantial planning View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016
reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria’s massive youth unemployment problem by engaging young people in agribusiness. To achieve his first goal, Sanginga in 2013 established a business incubation platform (BIP), which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
now." Inventing things to do has not been a problem for our sample of nontraditional career track women. "I never said, Oh my gosh, I'm not working, how am I going to use my business skills for the next few years?' " laughs Edee... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
government is run by a small number of people calling all the shots. I think his hard-charging tone, coupled with his willingness to single out certain groups — from the media to Muslims to women to Hispanics — as responsible for many of the nation’s View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
our fellows come back and they’ll tell us that they have more confidence, more self-awareness, more conviction around problems that they really feel are worth trying to solve. More clarity of purpose for how they’re going to navigate... View Details