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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
because frontline staff is empowered to fix problems, senior leaders should sometimes cede responsibility. Thus, Tucker and Singer's paper puzzled some readers, who found it counterintuitive that improvements came when senior leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Why have various countries of the former Soviet Union taken such dramatically different economic paths since the Union's breakup? This has been a lingering puzzle of the post-Cold War period. Lithuania, for instance, has turned its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of how few people—neither the ones depicted on the wall nor the artists who had made them—looked like her. “I noticed it and I puzzled over it for a long time. People, in some way, want to see themselves and, up until recently, there have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
prior to class as tools to marshal that energy on demand. “The deep puzzle of both research and teaching is how you can get into the zone in a creative way and be able to do that at, say, 9:10 am on Tuesday when you have to show up to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
research. For example, the puzzles raised by the Stanley Works case opened up the line of inquiry on the corporate governance role of taxation. The Czech Mate case series prompted an academic paper that frames the lessons from the case on... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
trick—and this book is dedicated to it—is figuring out which leaders matter, and when and why, and what lessons we can take from those who do. In puzzling out the answers to these questions, we will focus on those individuals who seem... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
he's done so, Silk has charted fundamental changes in the advertising business—some of them well known, others that address long-standing puzzles or that challenge conventional wisdom. In a trio of papers, Silk has laid out his research... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
problem, but no one has any idea what’s going on,” says Hawkins. With that framework, he says, “it’s like a puzzle, and you don’t know how the puzzle pieces go together.” But thanks to recent discoveries, including that powerful discovery... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
saying, "there had always been a noisy grandstand of friends and family to applaud success, or the appearance of it, or even boo in a friendly way at failure."7 Auchincloss shows us that despite all the busy, purposeful activity, Tony feels dead inside. This... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
development companies are at work, bringing gigawatts of renewable power online every year. “But there are so many puzzle pieces that many projects die on the vine.” Diana is encouraged by some signs of positive momentum, as regional grid... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
the puzzle of low adoption, we show that payouts improve trust in the product and that farmers shield payouts from claims by relatives. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
these interactions having no idea who this charming, inquisitive Southern gentleman was. Other times, students might ask his name, and he replies simply: “I’m Dick Spangler.” When this happens, you can see the puzzled look turning into an... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
from and what those risks are. I don't think they can do the job without becoming more involved." Whereas these directors puzzle over where the line should be drawn between management and the board, others believe that the crucial issue... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
"imagination," "invention," "originality," and so on. “We're not saying that creativity's bad, but we are saying that it can lead to problems.” To test whether the creativity prime worked, the researchers asked participants to solve a... View Details