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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
takeovers and/or liberation. Capitalist evolution requires the continuing transformation of its three levels of governance. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to Do About It Author:Richard S. Tedlow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Dansko's growth, "home schooling"—taking young energetic employees with little business experience and mentoring them—seemed ill-suited for the next phase of growth. Equally as precarious was the fact that with few exceptions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has shown how local clubs and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Harvard Business Review Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women By: Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Abstract—Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
computers, primarily for commercial and business markets. The commercializing of the System 360 required half a decade, at the cost of nearly $7 billion. That extraordinary learning experience immediately defined the computer industry... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across many decades and continents. Certainly, the dollars spent each year... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the directors who become the creative leaders and I become the support, the right hand so to speak. So in the case of Lego, we put it all together. And we cast it with my directors Lord and Miller, and then they became the CEOs of the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). Abstract Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
remained a popular leader for his commitment to promoting Nigerian business ventures. Elevated to Prime Minister of his tribe—the Ijebu-Ode—in 1956, and later selected as the first President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination, and Experimentation By: Kirby, William C., and Marjk van der Wende Abstract—This book highlights the experiences of international leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
connectivity) at a “Little India” just outside town limits. At the end of a six-month trial, the experiment was declared a success. “We’re very proud to have been at the forefront of offshoring,” says Raju, who sees his company’s growth... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna