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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
market coming as a major systems house customer came to GUC directly. Did this mean that it was enabling competition with TSMC's most important customers? Was it fostering disintermediation, and what did this portend for the future shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
watchmaking, the study’s analysis reveals how technology reemergence is a decidedly cognitive process, unfolding in two phases: a first phase marked by a redefinition of meanings and values associated with the legacy technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Ashley because she does a better job than Aisha." Or, "I read Playboy for the articles." In this chapter from a forthcoming book, HBS doctoral student Zoë Chance and professor Michael I. Norton describe various means of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
materials industry. USG was otherwise a solvent, growing company. Bankruptcy was an option, but a successful reorganization was by no means assured. How would USG keep its highly motivated (and non-unionized) workforce and continue to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the coming together of real-time... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Business School Case 215-020 Dogs of the Dow This case describes the Dogs of the Dow investment strategy, value investing, and using dividend yields as a means to determine intrinsic value. It also describes exchange traded notes and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
repetitive in nature. We introduce the concept of a restart effect—task and temporal disruptions that stimulate worker productivity—as a means of addressing challenges of repetitive work. For our empirical analyses, we use two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change. Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
alternative means of understanding these decisions that is highly complementary to the large-sample research in several ways. First, the cases in the book serve as manifestations and validation of some of the lessons of large-sample... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
themselves. If they cannot leverage themselves, they have no time to build relationships with their peers and bosses to get access to the resources their teams need to deliver. And let’s face it, reaching out and cultivating relationships in global companies often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and reinterprets these myths in a way that provides meaning for men who work in large companies in an... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II embraced credit access as a means to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
important open-ended question: What does a positive outcome mean to you? "We were getting all these different answers, and very few of them mentioned survival," Feeley says. "We came to the realization—as did ICHOM in doing... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Renaissance Italy to the nineteenth-century USA to South Korea in the 1960s and contemporary China. This does not mean that governments always know what they are doing, far from it, but it does indicate that our debates should be over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Publication:World Development 38, no. 3 (March 2010) Abstract Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
discussed his thoughts on the current business environment and how deals get done with HBS Working Knowledge. Julia Hanna: Talk a little about what you mean by "negotiauctions." Guhan Subramanian: If you put aside fixed-price... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
entrepreneurs can achieve both—the Larry Ellisons of the business world are few and far between. In fact, there is a fundamental tension between the money side and the control side—getting rich often means selling control to investors;... View Details