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- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
Life & Leadership After HBS Pervasive & Pernicious: Sexual Harassment at Work In 2018, as the #MeToo movement brought new attention to the prevalence of sexual harassment at work, we asked Harvard Business School alumni* about harassment... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" in Düsseldorf. The article narrates how by means of various cooperative efforts growing out of a sense of paternal social engagement, which we would today call corporate social responsibility, local View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9
markets, and the theory of market design. Publisher's Link: http://www.amazon.com/Auctions-Market-Mechanisms-Their-Applications/dp/3642309127 Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Authors:Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil Publication:Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53251 August 22, 2017 Harvard Business Review Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Robert Marsh Abstract—This article reports the results of a survey of key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
square foot have not improved significantly since the depths of the recession—and the decline in ROIC is even more stunning for category killers. “Best Buy and many similar businesses didn't see the bullet... View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—We investigate the factors driving workers’ decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1,200... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
important information gets easily lost amid a sea of irrelevant posts. Høylie must figure out how to improve the way employees interact with the platform. Or should REMA 1000 just abandon it? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
development projects that are imposed from above, with little concern for local needs. By the time she arrived at HBS, Dlodlo was herself the single mother of a two-year-old daughter, a circumstance that made business school a grind:... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating on the consensus forecasting approach around which the process revolves. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26
business manager. Publisher's Link: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Management-Accounting-Information-for-DecisionMaking-and-Strategy-Execution/9780137024971.page Who Benefits from Religion? Authors:Daniel Mochon, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne