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- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-053.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBetfair vs. UK Bookmakers Harvard Business School Case 709-417 Betting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
opportunity for me to explore this topic. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Professor Kevin Sharer (former CEO at Amgen), we participated in case discussions with current and past CEOs of major public companies to uncover their day-to-day... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and exploit new business opportunities. In sum,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
exploit that opportunity when someone does figure it out." When he teaches the case in the future, Garvin says, he wants to up the volume on certain ingredients. For example, the ability for NGS to offer membership benefits—access to... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
that these effects were amplified for inventors with particular characteristics. As Marx explains, the results suggest that "star" or "specialist" inventors wishing to explore career opportunities may need to look... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
versus only 18%, 15% and 8% in the West, Midwest, and Northeast respectively [5]. Thus, homes in the South are more primed for heat pump installation and will likely benefit from lower upfront expenditures. Lastly, the cost of electricity View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit higher mispricing. Drawing on organizational legitimacy theory, we argue that both regulators and beneficent nonprofits seek to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals and exploring the determinants of their growth. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
HBS faculty and alumni offer nine strategies to put you over the top, whatever the year ahead may hold. Out of the Valley A special Skydeck miniseries explores how frontier markets are defining the future of innovation In Review Nitin... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to recognize and deal with. For example, an organization that has just completed a learning initiative may see a drop in productivity, at least in the short term. Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore the problematic... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
also indicated the extent to which they experienced a variety of emotions on a scale of one to five. The results showed that the low-power participants felt dirtier, and had a higher preference for cleansing products, after professional networking View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel