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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were...
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- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the market has in assessing the impact of these bills. Consistent with the legislator incentive mechanism, the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies deliver just 50% to 60% of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to provide peace of mind. While Huber knew next to nothing about...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
foreign financial institutions. "We also looked at some financial measures of performance ... By far the strongest influence turned out to be the influence of family involvement and the particular form that family involvement took....
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
founded, the notion of social enterprise was still relatively new to the lexicon, and HBS was clearly one of the pioneering actors in this broader movement to advance the study and the practice of social enterprise and in inspiring other...
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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Indeed, Morgantown's system provides more than 10,000 rides per day, continuing for decades with good reliability. Q: What is the potential now for PRTs to "take off," so to speak? What are the incentives both for PRT businesses...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
in a relatively narrow trading band, say between $20 and $50. In a typical year, about 300 firms split their shares, and most splits are in ratios of 2-for-1 or 3-for-2. There are some famous examples of firms that have decided not to...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect of various agglomeration...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707419 Lenovo: Building a Global Brand Harvard Business School Case 507-014 Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth....
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by Michael Wheeler
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
the endowment). Earned income and philanthropy are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets, which continued to perform well in fiscal 2019. The School’s total revenues increased by $69 million, or 8 percent, to $925...
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- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
screens is a relevant difference. In fact, our study empirically supports the widely held assumption that the U.S. is overscreened and key foreign markets are underscreened. This difference has consequences for the relative power of...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
cost of external finance shape both the probability of entering entrepreneurship and the characteristics of those who become entrepreneurs. As expected, differences-in-differences estimates show that the entry rates for individuals who faced an increase in the cost of...
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Martha Lagace