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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores, published this month. A bookstore anthropologist Since 2012, Raffaelli has examined how indie bookstores have survived and thrived in the digital era. The research... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and/or number of display-only items have no significant impact on these decisions. These findings reveal a novel choice behavior in commonly encountered settings such as online marketplaces. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
her research. New Business: Teresa, tell us about the general context of your research. Teresa Amabile: With all the focus entrepreneurs and business executives place on strategy, they can lose sight of the people "in the trenches" who actually have to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
in order to proceed with business as usual; today, firms with superior and novel operations can generate huge competitive advantage because of them. Second, where operations was once viewed primarily as a manufacturing function, service... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
based industries and about the legitimacy-seeking activities of entrepreneurs in an industry that is transported from one part of the world to another, making it novel only in a new, limited geographic region. In this exploratory and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
opportunities to address systems of care issues so critical to the treatment of patients with chronic conditions." If curricula are a significant problem, they often reflect limitations in the ability of faculty to address the novel... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
before September 2012 to identify survey instruments used to measure teamwork and to assess their conceptual content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. We searched the ISI Web of Knowledge database and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a labeling scheme that is comprehensible to the average shopper. Here, we describe our method of developing a nutrition metric to fill this void. Methods—We asked leading nutrition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
'change,'" and a working knowledge of "new" economics, in the opinion of Devdip Ganguli. Roberto Rodriguez added "global thinking" and "entrepreneurial spirit" to the list. While citing the need for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces By: Shore, Jesse, Ethan Bernstein, and David Lazer Abstract—Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the network structure of 16-person... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
international objectives are in jeopardy today. To the extent that business strategies are based on these same erroneous notions, they are also at great risk. Q: What can a business executive learn about leadership from your research? A: We offer a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately, benefit people in every sphere... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year period. The theory and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
confidence. I passed the test, and I’m telling you, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. 1 The ability to reason, analyze, and solve novel problems 2 The ability to use knowledge gained in the past Happy Hours... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters