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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
in three two-week modules. The first two modules take place in Johannesburg and the third in Boston. Between sessions, participants return to their workplaces to test out the new theories and practices they've learned. With participants... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea: View Details
- 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
specialized groups working independently of one another. The 'modules' could then be connected and (in theory at least) would function seamlessly, as long as they conformed to a predetermined set of design rules." In addition, module... View Details
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Marcela Sapone
the magic of staying at a fancy hotel,” Sapone said. “We are giving hotel service at home for a very accessible price. It is basically Clay Christensen’s disruption theory in practice.” Alfred offers an ever-expanding... View Details
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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment
global economy. From the beginning, the significance of the theory and research being developed by the School was evident. Communicating the leading business issues of the day began with the publication of the first Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
was no disputing the significance of Levitt’s contribution to the theory and practice of global marketing and to the ongoing assessment of its impact. As HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow noted of Levitt’s work, “It’s all in the question,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22
social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and their firm's overall performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search and to develop theory that can be tested by modeling the higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at New York Public Library, he put... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Authors:Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino, and Richard P. Larrick Abstract We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the psychological effect of power on leaders spills over to impact team effectiveness. Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder requests for information disclosure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
evidence that buyers are willing to place a premium on status, holding constant quality and the reputation for quality." What sounds easy in theory may be difficult in practice, however: "Look around and you may be hard-pressed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the one hand, arguments based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What are parents’ View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman