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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. As a result, America has lost not only the ability to develop View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

most recently-precisely the individuals who would recognize it is a gift. The effects of the gift are higher for workers with lower historical wages, and in fact it increases productivity more than it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

firm. It also helped employees start 1,000 new companies and replaced jobs in communities where Nokia was a major employer. One-third of all mobile phone sales between 2011 and 2012 came from new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

Termination ; Leadership Style ; Management Succession ; Size ; Negotiation Offer ; Private Ownership ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Trust ; Conflict of Interests ; Conflict Management ; View Details
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

school, for example, I had been asked to research insurance coverage for a raft of lawsuits being brought against Johns-Manville Corporation for injuries and deaths from exposure to asbestos. At the time, Johns-Manville was the leading... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 18 Jun 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: June 18

    managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    variation in value across banks. Variation in productivity is driven by differences across banks in technology, customer demographics, and market power. Their findings suggest that there is significant... View Details
    • 20 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 20

    eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 2

    http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/SSRN%20-%20Org%20Sci%20Rewrite%20for%20ssrn_b75b2c22-40f6-430f-be8f-9797e71fe2ea.pdf September 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Management Practices, Relational Contracts View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jun 2013
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    First Look: June 4

    Abstract—What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper shows that prices can affect integration.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 16, 2016

    to influence prices set by downstream retailers. Although manufacturers expect retail partners to comply with MAP policies, violations of MAP are common in practice. In this research, we document and explain... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    evaluate their theory by looking at the design evolution of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Return of the Salesman

    address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 18 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

    Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 26 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 26, 2006

    expertise of South African generic drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare are shown to be ameliorating misguided policy decisions by the South African government; communications campaigns, operational synergies, alternative distribution... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne