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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
process, and the economy. One explores changes in the ability of the US to attract talented foreign workers and the role of sponsoring institutions in shaping immigration policy. Another explains how the division of innovative labor between research universities and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and organizational innovation, this paper reports on a field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns and trading volume at the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
under in the biggest corporate scandal in South African history. In one day, Sekunjalo's stock dropped 44%. Surve, already a very public figure in South Africa, had to decide what to do, especially what to tell his loyal employees who had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences and their subsequent preferences. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
States, I was offered the job of general manager of the Italian marketing operation based in Rome, with responsibility to integrate it with a newly acquired manufacturing company outside Florence. I insisted that I would need to have both... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Startups must satisfy the same regulatory and security requirements as their corporate customers, and building the kind of credibility that a top-five bank or insurance company wants in a vendor takes time. As a result, says Karvounis,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
recommendations cover the entire hiring cycle in seven steps: anticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
from Dice-K in the 2007 season? And finally, how does the signing fit into the greater strategic context of competing with the much-better funded Yankees? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208043 Esquel Group: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
rich, poor. I put a book on hold and when it arrives, it’s kind of magical.” The big L: “For me, leadership means making decisions even when they’re hard and nobody else wants to, and doing it with integrity. I can compromise on issues, but not on the View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
554, with billings for 2006 estimated at $1 billion. The agency’s client list now includes brands such as Volkswagen, Burger King, and Virgin Atlantic, among others. “The business I loved is the business we’re in now — being completely View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Cisco relies on three layers of customer data to inform its efforts to improve customer satisfaction: The overall satisfaction survey that customers fill out annually; interviews with targeted customer segments, follow-on surveys, and sessions with View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
social responsibility in all corporate affairs. That now lives under the rubric ESG-- Environment, Society, and Governance." Gina Hall MBA 1986 | Partnering for a Low Carbon Future “I’m slowing climate change by harnessing the power of... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
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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
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
http://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/ar/1 2006 The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics By: Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
that. We pulled women directors from all the corporations together for a topic, and they met each other and networked. And I did a lot on starting corporate networks inside corporations. I would bring groups... View Details