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- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
Bazerman Abstract The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. In recent research, judgment and decision-making scholars have moved beyond the concept of bounded rationality to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
effectively ward off a predictable surprise." What's a veil of ignorance and how can it help executives avoid predictable surprises? A: American philosopher John Rawls developed the concept of a veil of ignorance to encourage us to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
casual but cultured lifestyle of California's Napa Valley, his coach Fern Mandelbaum, cofounder of toy maker Skyline, questioned whether other Americans shared his concept of Napa. "I thought, 'Come on, Fern, I will tell you what it... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
distance (how social hierarchies affect negotiation), context of communication (the degree to which messages inherit meaning from the setting in which they are delivered), and different conceptions of time (whether negotiators from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
tunneling (expropriation) but are, on average, exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Then it examines commonalities across various conceptions of "world-class," including productive faculty, excellent students, flexible administration, plentiful funding, and international engagement. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
supporting a culture that enables all team members to bring their full selves to the table. This theme is also personally important as in the 1990s, growing up in South Africa, the work of Judith Shklar was an influence, focusing on the View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
such decisions. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309069 HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0 Harvard Business School Case 509-049 This case introduces the concept of inbound marketing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
“If you have a concept to communicate that is 20 minutes long, you will be competing with other instances of 20-minute content,” Greenstein says. “Don’t expect households to take two 10-minute slots and put them together for you. That’s... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
The development unit at Supercell revolves around the concept of a “cell,” a small team consisting of anywhere from two to a dozen (or more) people who work together to make a game. Cells are highly independent and control all the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015
some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called “positioning school” and discusses how these ideas can be translated into the context of regions. It identifies differences between the two areas but also finds sufficient similarities for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
from the one or two products offered by Brand B." Q: You introduce the construct "assortment type" in the paper. What does the concept mean and how does it impact on brand share? What is an "alignable" assortment... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
investment by entering into joint ventures or by licensing local partners. Still, they must remember that the concept of "open" can be deceptive. For example, executives believe that China is an open economy because the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To derive insights from the tree, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53918 forthcoming Journal of Management Studies Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research By: Christensen, Clayton M., Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Jonathan E.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman