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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
closed, co-located organizations develop systems with larger Cores. Our findings establish some "stylized facts" about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems, serving as a point of departure for future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where he honed his business skills and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
supporters note a number of reforms over the past two decades, including a current review of the Bank's information disclosure policy, and a series of "safeguards" on sensitive issues such as environmental impacts and effects on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
transaction processes of business to supporting individual professionals within the organization. In the mid-1990s, we entered the Network Era manifest by the Internet. Today my colleagues and I are at work on a set of case studies that examine how networks impact the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
British merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, especially in developing economies, including both British colonies and the independent nations of Latin America. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
tech-oriented, two-year college degree. “P-TECH is a great example of what I call ‘thinking outside the building,’” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Kanter chronicled P-TECH’s development... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
impose " Sudheer Thaakur concurred: " in a world that is more complex and uncertain and ambiguous we should be promoting slow and deliberative thinking. Till we do that we will not be able to fully utilize the opportunity offered by (the) View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
recruits by five to 10 months. McKinsey, for example, has laid off both non-client and client service staff, and for the first time in its history, has offered buyouts to hundreds of senior associates. Meanwhile, public consulting firm... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand which underpin the link between the three characteristics of the inventory system: inventory levels, orders placed and actual demand faced. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
became MTV. He got his MBA from HBS in 1985 and then plunged into a career in the entertainment industry. Working with people like Bob Pittman, the founder of MTV, Bedol immersed himself in a series of development projects as part of... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Working PapersBarriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max H. Bazerman No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-063.pdf Fear of Rejection? Tiered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
conditions. During normal or expansion periods in the economy, the dynamics of cost of capital generate an upward sloping term structure; however, in times of high economic uncertainty, the term structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne