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  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills test. The View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

specialized customer experience. Rather than only recommending bestsellers, they developed personal relationships with customers by helping them discover up-and-coming authors and unexpected titles. Convening: Independent booksellers also... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

authors hail from various world regions and are themselves leading global historians. Collectively, they provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. As one of the first books to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

the committee has steadily broadened its purview, now advising on a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led the View Details
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Testing for Firm Heterogeneity, Predicting Firm-Specific Coefficients, and Estimating Strategy Trade-Offs

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk & Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida
  • 16 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Governing Misvalued Firms

Keywords: by Dalida Kadyrzhanova & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • 27 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Government Bonds

Keywords: by Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Keywords: by David Vogel, Michael Toffel, Diahanna Post & Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

  Working PapersThe Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author:Gary P. Pisano An abstract in unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-062.pdf   PublicationsTargeted Advertising as a Signal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
  • October–December 2023
  • Article

A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other

By: Michael Yeomans, Katelynn Boland, Hanne K. Collins, Nicole Abi-Esber and Alison Wood Brooks
Conversation—a verbal interaction between two or more people—is a complex, pervasive, and consequential human behavior. Conversations have been studied across many academic disciplines. However, advances in recording and analysis techniques over the last decade have... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Research
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  • 2017
  • Book

Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia
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  • Spring 2014
  • Article

Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company

By: Andrew Knauer and George Serafeim
Faced with a large percentage of investors that chase short-term returns, companies could benefit by attracting investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Asset Management; Long-term Investing; Short-termism; Sustainability; Integrated Reporting; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Pharmaceuticals; Leadership; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Finance; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 2014
  • Chapter

Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research

By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business History; Entrepreneurship; History; Organizations
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

How Experts Gain Influence

By: Anette Mikes, Matthew Hall and Yuval Millo
In theory, the risk management groups of two British banks—Saxon and Anglo—had the same influence in their organizations. But in practice, they did not: Saxon's was engaged in critical work throughout the bank, while Anglo's had little visibility outside its areas of... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Banking Industry
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon
While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Credit; Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment; Government and Politics; Data and Data Sets; Resource Allocation; Markets; Performance; Banking Industry; Brazil
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    Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment

    What’s behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge... View Details

      The Progress Principle

      By  Teresa M. Amabile, and Steven J. Kramer.

      Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.

      The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive... View Details

      • 09 May 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

      formulating strategies and allocating resources, and the interests of future shareholders and other stakeholders would have to be given more deference. The authors point out that they are “capitalists to the core But the health of the... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • Web

      Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      seating areas with wireless internet for meals and meetings Each store carries local produce and has the authority to contract with the local farmers. Company provides low-interest loans if needed Nutrition information and education... View Details