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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
micro-theorists in economics call biased risk-evaluation?...[It's one in which the bias prevails that you] attach 'gain' to a probabilistic assessment and you trigger action; attach 'loss' to it, you get inaction." Pallavi Marathe...
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by James Heskett
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
one this step is based on, is figuring out how you will know when to go for Options B or C and call it quits on the current game. To do this, we first assess what our best option seems to be based on: our satisfaction to date with the...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of...
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Tricia Peralta
Tricia has always been passionate about healthcare, social impact, and strategy, and has explored career paths including corporate strategy, management consulting, project management across private, public, and social sectors. Consequently, Tricia is excited to chat...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
stumbles in dealing with public opposition," says Oberholzer-Gee. He and HBS collaborator Dennis Yao, the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, have developed a diagnostic tool to help companies assess the value that...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
assess and advance their own brand-management efforts. Confessions to a Deaf God by Gary R. Blinn (MBA ’72) (Xlibris Corporation) Blinn’s memoir of his two years as a Navy Swift boat skipper in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta offers a vivid,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
To the Rescue
assesses the cost-benefit ratio of antipoverty programs and funds only the most effective. Compassion and charity can be married to intellectual rigor, she told Voice of America (December 12, 2012). "We look at the entire landscape and...
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Leading in the Classroom - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class The extensive preparation carried out by case method instructors prior to a class session culminates in the real-time discussion of the case. Implementing the teaching plan involves challenges...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
companies identified through a review of industry journals. The final sample contained data on 29 projects from 17 companies. The most remarkable finding was that getting a low-functionality version of the product into customer's hands at the earliest opportunity...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Eye in the Storm
Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) As turmoil swept across the Middle East, View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a world of climate change?’” Other class sessions challenge students to assess...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they...
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Judith A. Ross
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
(once a characteristic of living things only, right?) in its answer. It assessed the situation, took a calculated risk, and bet just enough to win. Game, set, and match—$53,601 to $42,399—to the still-undefeated Wired One. (Dollars are...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit general manager and their top team...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
this process, employers can assess candidates' skills objectively instead of relying on the candidate’s assessment of their abilities. Furthermore, if two candidates are both given a work sample test, they...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
with a comprehensive approach to assessing the current health care market. Students can build from this framework with their own assessments of potential opportunities for business or policy innovation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure By: Kayser, Susan A., John W. Maxwell, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—To assess and manage reputational risks associated with supply chains, buyers are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
He and his collaborators focus on the importance of empirical analysis to assess degrees of influence. “The more we understand the nature of special-interest influence over regulation, the more we should be able to devise a spectrum of...
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