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  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Expertise Authors:Heidi K.Gardner and Lisa Kwan Abstract Why do some teams fail to convert members' knowledge into valued outcomes? We propose that members' differing perceptions of each other's levels of expertise is a critical factor.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf Varied Experience, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

grow and become successful, they are often marked by the negative stigma associated with size and power, which elicits anticorporate sentiment from consumers. An underdog brand biography can be strategically wielded to prevent or offset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

breeze about a trendy new third-party tool over a game of Super Smash Bros. in the breakroom. “In most software hackathons, the formal competition aspect is really just a façade to put everyone in a time-bound and high-energy environment. Most View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding is that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509028 Iceland (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-011 In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

while aiming for consistency and managing complexity. The case concludes with a description of new challenges as the district faces political unrest, shrinking enrollments, and decreased funding. Hiroshima and her team wrestle with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

airports come at a premium, however; securing space depended on financing, a credible design for Polished's stores, and leasing managers' belief in Rhyne's ability to hire people and satisfy customers—neither of which was possible, of course, without a site.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

the ways in which real managers in real firms grapple with significant decisions affecting their businesses. We discuss cases that reflect a mix of professions as well as firms of different sizes and supplement them with additional... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

the role third parties play was inadequate in describing the processes at work in the highly specialized CEO market. The size of the candidate pool, for instance, is often underestimated. If you believe most search firms, in fact, it's a... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by existing firms. We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved allocative efficiency across the entire firm View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract—Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team-the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO-doubled during this... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

rates and order value and reduces fulfillment costs arising from returns and home try-on behavior, that is, customers ordering multiple sizes of the same product. We explore mechanisms through which providing virtual fit information helps... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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