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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
attention to the human input into the system since so much moral decision-making is repeatedly delegated to individuals. The screening and hiring procedures need therefore be quite robust to ensure continuity. In addition, a lot of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
article concludes that it is critical to make institutions in our current 'consumer era' more attentive to individual patients who are put at risk. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success Authors:Lee Fleming,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
information, and attempting to influence the work of others. An employee with a narrow span of influence does not need to pay much attention to people outside his small area to do his job effectively. An individual with a wide span must... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
will play in the discussions, and build mutual respect, particularly with regard to differences in the cognitive styles of each team member. During the deliberations, leaders can intervene in several ways when debates get heated. They might redirect people's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
himself in the thick of postwar Iraqi politics. Before returning to London disheartened in May 2006, he also served as minister of defense, minister of finance, and as a member of the Transitional National Assembly. Back in London, Allawi turned his View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
call center operations are described in detail, as are its decision-making and business processes. At the end of the case, executives are considering whether Ctrip should actively pursue either the budget or luxury travel segments, which would mean shifting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
has arrived. Thanks to 50 years of research by judgment and decision-making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded. This paper argues that the time has come to focus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
student life. "Think about our mission," Clark invited the attentive audience, "and think about this world. Our mission is to educate leaders for that world." To accomplish this, Clark explained, the School is pursuing three important... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217058 Harvard Business School Case 918-003 Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (A) In 1976, a growing crisis in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
subsequent increases in firm value. We show that companies increase performance on immaterial issues because of agency problems, low awareness of the materiality of ESG issues, and attempts to divert attention from poor performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
attention to both the statutory rates of tax on corporate income and the specifics of the definition of corporate income when thinking about taxes. But they may also find it valuable to think about why these trends coexist and whether... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving proper attention to executing the here and now with the utmost care... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
business. The problem is that the success they might have in growing new businesses is uncertain, whereas the decline of the traditional business is inevitable. To succeed in becoming a hybrid company, business leaders must pay attention... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Barron, and Kagan Tumer Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet?” Moore asked in astonishment. “Thirty thousand feet?” There, marked on the map with the same attention given any other summit was an indistinct sketch of a mountain, labeled Mount Koonka, height 30,000 feet above sea level. A curly... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
including labor, education, healthcare, energy, and antitrust seemed uncompetitive. But with a weaker peso and greater governmental attention to infrastructure, Calderon hoped that Mexico's higher-tech exports could recapture U.S. market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
come out in a different place," he explains. "By focusing attention almost exclusively on government error, it gives the impression that government can't solve any problems. It's as if we focused exclusively on medical accidents and... View Details