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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
corruption, the interesting and important issues are shades of gray,” observes Abdelal, who has authored several case studies on corruption and is writing a book on the subject with HBS professor Rafael Di Tella. Very broadly speaking,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Following competitors allows you to position yourself against them. Observing analyst valuations and forecasts raises red flags internally when the market has different views on your company's performance and strategies; this allows you... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
innovation enthusiasm she's observed over the past 25 years. She describes the classic mistakes companies make in innovation strategy, process, structure, and skills assessment, illustrating her points with a plethora of real-world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
instrumental assistance, such as loans of cash, to psychosocial assistance, such as friendship and caring. I observed that these helping relationships all shared a similar characteristic: all of these men had worked at Baxter. I began to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
at the other little forts in the room.” Holmes would later tell the National Observer that after a particularly heated exchange, she told First Nations representative Dallas Smith—who has a prosthetic leg—“If I was a wooden leg I’d take... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
SOS-KDI in the Andean countries. "Nevertheless, it will be worthwhile to observe it for several years before making a judgment. We can only learn by experimenting." This debate and other challenges facing SOS-KDI, such as how to determine... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
point, which translates into an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a voucher program would disproportionately induce into private schools those who, along View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
assignments Helping team members learn and grow. Do “office hours” on videoconferencing to replace the informal conversations you once had in the office. This will encourage people to come forth with questions, and with observations and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
needed to be, but they had to wait for the doctor to certify that the parent's diagnosis was correct. And the last thing in the world they wanted to do was to see the doctor. And you see the insight that-- I don't want to do this, occurs when you View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
assignments Helping team members learn and grow. Do “office hours” on videoconferencing to replace the informal conversations you once had in the office. This will encourage people to come forth with questions, and with observations and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
including voter, state, and election fixed effects, and allowing movers’ behavior to be arbitrarily different, both in levels and average trend, from non-movers’. We find that state characteristics explain about 52% of the observed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
outs (LBOs) and greatly changed the structure of corporate America. By the late 1980s, though, Milken and junk bonds became more heavily scrutinized, and Milken was eventually implicated in a number of felonious acts. Even after his admission of guilt, however, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
reservation for a family vacation? In other words, it is difficult to make a loyalty program effective if the consumer does not believe that the rewards are achievable. This myth is partly true because most retailers agree with the View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18242 When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
of work in their lives. And Richard Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed formed the foundation for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso