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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
another new product and, if so, what this move would mean for their ready-to-grow product line. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-071 Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
coming of Snuggie mean the end of Slanket? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510034-PDF-ENG Who Broke the Bank of England? Harvard Business School Case 709-026 In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
School. True professions have codes, and the meaning and consequences of those codes are taught as part of the formal education required of their members. Through these codes, professional institutions forge an implicit social contract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
giver-receiver interactions—are resource-allocation decisions that also contribute to the social meaning of help. These findings illuminate the theoretical and practical overlap between helping and external leadership in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
the biggest entertainment hits were green-lighted based on a gut feeling and little "hard" data. Third, being able to make friends in high places is a valuable characteristic; with that I mean being able to work with A-list... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
about how easy it will be to enact the conferees' recommendations in the larger academic world. "Our point of view will not be credible unless this group acts to make it credible. It needs to be legitimized as a means to make health care... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
research at HBS, in close collaboration with Harvard Medical School. In addition to researching sleep, creativity, and decision making, he studies influence, persuasion, voice and facial categorization, and communication. Martha Lagace: What do you View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
members source knowledge on behalf of the team. This specialized knowledge-sourcing approach lowers search costs. The other approach has most or all team members engaging in knowledge sourcing. This broad approach means that more team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
downturn will mean for salespeople? A: Well, if the impression of salespeople was low before the financial crisis, it has only gotten worse. Realtors, mortgage brokers, investment advisors, and telephone solicitors offering credit cards... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. Accountability is a socially constructed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8, no. 1 (July 2008) Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
some may have hoped. "The birth of every new technology leads to some kind of hype, and when the hype settles it will be clear that crowdfunding is here to say," concludes Nanda. "But I don't think it will substitute for something else. Rather, it will... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
the process that generates the entire distribution. In particular, they need to keep in mind the following 3 measures of inventive success: shots on goal (the total number of inventions a company generates), average score (the mean value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
defined by the requirements of their jobs. The idea of employees organizing to advocate was anathema. One white male executive said, "Does this mean that we can have a communist cell here? Are we going to have hundreds and hundreds... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field brand and part of the entrepreneur's means of distinguishing his offering at a moment when there were more than a dozen department stores in Chicago. So how did Field make his strategic mark? By establishing a powerful, relevant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
just look straight at the goal, and at the distance between where we are now and where that treasure is, the gap can be overwhelming and paralyzing. It's important to know and reflect on what treasure you're seeking, but that doesn't mean... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
regulated the way insurers are regulated. Those words, insurance regulation, that's like striking a knife into the heart of an entrepreneur. It means you need a huge finance department to fill out forms, and so they hired a lobbyist just... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
two-fold, Lakhani added. It means fulfilling the public mission of an informed citizenry as well as also the private mission of enabling innovation. In terms of building government IT infrastructure, Data.gov demonstrates a way to be... View Details