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  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief descriptions are provided of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

be quickly forgotten. ©iStock.com/Yuri_Arcurs The $2.99 app, available on iTunes, starts with a self-assessment. Users rate themselves on several attributes, such as how much they assert their own needs versus understanding the motivations of others. Rather than let... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

mechanism whereby price partitioning affects a consumer's perception of the secondary (i.e., non-focal) benefits derived from a transaction. Four experiments support the hypothesis that a partitioned price increases the amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings.... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 20 Jun 2016
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When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

be less likely to predict that John also enjoys conducting social science research at Harvard. FIVE EXPERIMENTS The researchers conducted five studies to determine when and why people assume that others are incapable of liking dissimilar... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706504 Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147 Provides a framework for team problem solving and process improvement following concepts widely View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2008
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Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Toffel. "We decided to bridge this impasse by creating the experiment inherent in MapEcos, providing a diverse group of companies the opportunity to disclose their environmental management efforts. The map provides both the stimulus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jul 2012
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The Unconscious Executive

unconscious thought as a goal-dependent, deliberative process in the absence of conscious attention. Most people attribute a lot of their actions to a conscious process, but there are scores of processes that operate unconsciously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2001
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Race Does Matter in Mentoring

Williams's experiences were typical of the minority executives in my study, which tracked the various stages of career development. Stage 1 covered entry level to middle management Stage 2 included middle management to upper middle... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 24 Apr 2006
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Managing Alignment as a Process

reviews—with the strategy. Case Study: Sport-Man Inc. We illustrate many of the alignment issues with a disguised case study, Sport-Man Inc. (SMI). The company founded in 1925 to manufacture and market men's work boots. Its early success was View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

markets relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases Selection of 'Should' Choices Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Revised August 2007. People often View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is.... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

  Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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