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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709488 Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Harvard Business School Case 309-090 In his role as Senior Vice President and Director... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
1969-70, he joined the HBS faculty. Just two years into his HBS career, Light won the 1972 Excellence in Teaching award for his work in the first-year MBA course on managerial economics, which, he points out, drew on the faculty's View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations research, but also to the practice of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a chain of around 70 stores located in over 20 states by 2013. Tindell believed TCS's employee-first culture and the seven Foundation Principles, which guided the company, were what differentiated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence from a multi-year research agenda at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
countries, WWF works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In contrast, Greenpeace works to campaign for environmental change against governments and corporations and accepts funding only... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
a firm's innovative model reinforce each other and what happens when the environment changes. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410056-PDF-ENG The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
cross-sector and cross-border partnerships needed to execute the model. Adding new information about how pharmaceutical companies handle global public health challenges. Jessica Martinez, a former Big Pharma executive who joined the Bill & Melinda Gates View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
against governments and corporations and accepts funding only through individuals and foundation grants. Explores the detailed history and business models of both organizations. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
before the end of the eighteenth century, but, thanks to the bibliographical research of retired Harvard librarian Kenneth E. Carpenter, we now know there were over 1,100 appearances of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth in at least 26... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G. Rukstad, the late senior View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
next couple of years, near term he is producing discussion papers in the hopes of getting feedback and more leads. The first in this series, Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy, cowritten with HBS research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer accessible to... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace