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  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

sorting process in industry were generally more sympathetic to business school admissions offices and the Herculean task they face in taking values into consideration in admissions. As Linda Abraham said, "Considering that ... time devoted to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set up effective performance... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

separately and privately but by representatives of the same agency. The result, as is widely known now, was that both actors agreed to reshoot the scenes for the actor’s equity base pay of about $80 per day. But Wahlberg’s agent,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Levitt's work. Here's a summary. The Globalization Of Markets: An Historical Perspective Theodore Levitt's "The Globalization of Markets": An Evaluation After Two Decades Professors Richard Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal acknowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

  PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

person is doing and just give orders, rather than rely on the judgment of those below." The research team evaluated data from some 1,000 manufacturing firms in eight countries, including detailed technology rollout histories and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

was higher, consumers rated the bag higher on all of those questions; when the displayed price was higher than the true price, however, it had no influence. That surprised Ngwe. “I expected even if they were given verifiably fake prices, it would still change people’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

concerned about the outcomes of business practices and products on our global society, and evaluate leaders accordingly." Yadeed Lobo commented that "the mark of a great leader is the impression they leave on any employee."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

framework to separate these explanations. Estimating this model with data on treatments for heart attack patients, we find evidence of substantial variation across hospitals in both allocative inefficiency and comparative advantage, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

more economically developed countries. But they do have something else: each other. "Peer groups are often used as a commitment device to achieve personal goals, but there has been little empirical evidence evaluating their... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall which left analysts free to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

already." Such is the pace of business development that "Starting New Ventures" has spawned its own spin-off this year, a separate course focused on launching technology ventures. That has let Hart's class focus more on... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

whole - behaving in a different manner than would be suggested by simply summing individual behavior. This, in turn, justifies the establishment of macroeconomics as a separate discipline, distinct from microeconomics with its focus on... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

advance research on teamwork in health care should consider using or adapting one of these instruments before creating a new one. Because instruments vary considerably in the behavioral processes and emergent states of teamwork that they capture, researchers must... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

model that explains employees’ moral evaluations of and reactions to referral practices based on the power relationship between a referrer and a hiring manager. Specifically, we predict that employees are more likely to see the acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In fields as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm's realized strategy. We find that in simple competitive situations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall image, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman