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- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
entry-level employees to eight widely scattered locations, we empirically assess how distance from hometown affects workers’ performance. Our results suggest that distance from hometown has a positive effect on worker performance in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
from different cultures, promoting creative collaboration. Study 1, a multi-rater assessment of managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
assess whether to hold or sell their shares in Eddie Bauer. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/110008/ Eddie Bauer (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 110-009 In February 2007, shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
theories of social influence, socialization, and status dynamics to examine how proximity to colleagues in commercial science influences individuals' propensity to transition to entrepreneurship. To expose the mechanisms at work, this study also View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we find that product assessments by powerful stakeholders and peer agencies influence product approval and that their effects vary under different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
implication is that higher product prices result in more integration. Since trade policy affects prices, it influences organizational decisions: higher tariffs lead to more integration; moreover, ownership structures are more alike across countries with similar levels... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
superior; each involves strategic trade-offs. When choosing among modes, firms must weigh their advantages and challenges and assess which will work best with their strategy, capabilities, structure, and assets. Purchase the article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
had to assess whether it was time to sound the alarm, and whether drastic and immediate measures were needed to right the innovation economy ship. Bibi mulled over which policies or interventions would best curb the erosion of Israel’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
private benefits. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to test this proposition: higher tariffs should lead to more vertical integration; moreover, ownership structures should be more alike across countries with similar levels of protection. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
Griffin H. JamesHarvard Business School Case 210-070 A real estate developer assesses its ability to capture the benefits of investing in LEED Platinum, Vedic Design, and EnergyStar components in new buildings. The building at 2000 Tower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
their employers on the one hand, and the decision makers and their employers on the other. GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand needed to assess both whether the compliance mechanisms in place were adequate for all parties, and if so, how or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
or colleagues to move with them to NewCo. Until they are employed by you, they have a duty of loyalty to OldCo. You can—and should—introduce them to senior management, analyze the market, assess your goals, and prepare them as much as... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53540 2017 Swedish Economic Forum Report 2017: Svensk konkurrenskraft The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017 By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
transparency of the methods used to obtain research findings. Although comprehensive reporting facilitates accurate assessment of a paper’s claims, the current reporting norm is secrecy, not openness. We begin by putting this situation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
Business School Case 114-043 Harley-Davidson in India (A) This case examines how Harley-Davidson has worked to globalize its business by focusing on how CEO Matt Levatich and India country manager Anoop Prakash assess and act on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
decision to launch CHF. How would they assess Hooks as a leader? What made him a strong leader? Given Hooks' past experiences, do they think that Hooks made the right decision to focus on lead poisoning after leaving the NAACP? Is this an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne