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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
Organizational Behavior 31 (2011) Abstract The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors-i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
shared transaction costs among its multiple sides. Using a variety of illustrations, the framework is then used to formulate general principles driving MSP design and expansion strategies: choosing the relevant platform "sides,"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/213078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-061 Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker Samuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
spreading their resources to build out the entire platform aimed at multiple specialties. As one of the early pioneers in delivering medical applications over the iPhone, AirStrip Technologies must contend with a major dilemma: the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
profits are tight." Alliances can take many different forms. Some, such as the arrangement between the Bidwell Training Center and the Bayer Corporation, come to involve multiple partners in an effort to assemble more abundant... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
all. One reported a relatively unchanged workout regimen, while the other five had increased their exercise, two of them working out with personal trainers multiple times a week. Those who initially reported meditating, with one... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
Extensions to our model accommodate the possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and merchant price re-optimization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-063.pdf Organizations in the Shadow of Communities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as a "green" solution to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
projects, two studies are related to how we ought to tax people when they differ in multiple ways. One shows that taxes ought to be less progressive when preferences for leisure time vary widely in society, and I find that international... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
Reasoning from Multiple Moralities Harvard Business School Module Note 607-072 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607072 The Prince Summary: Exercising Authority... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
the best imaginable deal, but one that's good enough. Your goal is to achieve a substantive outcome, not to negotiate endlessly for its own sake. Along these lines, negotiations on multiple fronts present two practical problems, different... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
United States, by 1975, the 50 largest multiple systems operators (MSOs) served 72 percent of the industry's total subscribers. 21 Of the 7.1 million subscribers in systems operated by the top 50 MSOs, 25.7 percent were customers of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
stage—one with risks, temptations, misbehaviors—and one that needs to be outgrown. In contrast, successful leaders who move beyond the hero stage learn to focus on others, gain a sense of a larger purpose, foster multiple support... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
technologies and companies; and who should own platform technologies built, at least in part, by the research of multiple parties and government funding. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817020-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
“what would I have done in that situation?” Interesting and diverse characters, great acting, and multiple story lines made for compelling viewing. Rosabeth Moss Kanter On my serious reading pile are books about American history and the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1 Working PapersBetter-reply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960s, the period when the key data becomes available; robust in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
nonbanks to sell loans and re-lend the cash proceeds multiple times. The volume of new issues of securitized loans has fallen off a cliff, from $100 billion a month in 2006 to almost zero at the end of 2008. To revive the process of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Bureau of Business Research, a dedicated group of scholars under Copeland's direction that, from 1920 to 1925, developed and wrote cases for multiple courses. (Once a critical mass of materials was developed, Donham disbanded the bureau... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin