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- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
This structure allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the mark-to-market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create safe claims by giving their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Sara J. Singer show that the commonly accepted "analysis" approach, wherein great attention is given to identifying and prioritizing a large number of problems, is not associated with success. Instead, an "action" approach is preferable.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
time. Which of his choices are key to Lincoln Center's mission and which might distract time and attention from its core programming? Grossman observes that despite the important challenges that must be addressed, Levy and the institution... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
unchanged. We find that CLV availability resulted in a significant shift in attention towards the more profitable client segments (the weight of the top segment in the portfolio of customers increases from 26% to 34%), but we do not find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks; a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round of funding. The area had attracted a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
programs. They require different kinds of content, different kinds of attention and a different degree of depth. So we continue to run the Charting Your Course, which, as I said, is kind of a strategic view and it's two days. We... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Why have various countries of the former Soviet Union taken such dramatically different economic paths since the Union's breakup? This has been a lingering puzzle of the post-Cold War period. Lithuania, for instance, has turned its View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
post-mortems on successful missions, NASA missed the opportunity to identify problems (and solutions) that might have helped avoid later failures. A third problem lay in NASA's tendency to aggressively post mortem failed missions while paying comparatively little View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
over-optimized to the point of maximum vulnerability,” he cautioned. Hence, a global economy is more likely to generate economic crises than a nonglobal economy, an inconvenient fact of economic life. Turning his attention to the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
themes challenge how you think about and approach problems, and its case studies illustrate the challenges you face and how to overcome them. Attentive Leadership: Lead with a Healthy Self-Image by Flooris van der Walt (AMP 173, 2007)... 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
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
motivation and aligns team efforts to deliver your leadership outcomes; foster responsive working relationships, reinforce effective commitments, and focus leadership attention on the right things; establish psychological safety to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the home of Ana and Dr. Juan Gershanik, a local neonatal specialist. Gershanik gained national attention in the aftermath of Katrina for helping to safely evacuate all the premature babies at his hospital, which was underwater... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but they have paid little attention to the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. We propose reach, richness, and receptivity as three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne