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  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

theory of disruptive innovation, often applied to a variety of other industries, such as technology and health care. Christensen's theory was first explored in his two New York Times bestsellers, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) and The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

(1776). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55548 Harvard Business School Case 719-456 OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A) In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Overconfident subjects also persist in making the mistake despite clear feedback. These results suggest non-linear pay schemes may help companies select and retain overconfident workers and may reduce the wage bill. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015

economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do it successfully until now. In this article, an MIT engineering professor and a Tuck professor of management explain why. After conducting a three-year study of reverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960s, the period when the key data becomes available; robust in both country fixed-effects and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Cassie, A.V. Whillans, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

  PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Publication:Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik 9 (2012) Abstract This article examines the growth and ultimate demise of the toothpaste brand Pebeco, which was created by the German personal care company Beiersdorf in 1903. The brand was an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also rank among the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the relationships between exploitation, perturbation, and exploration. We provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

  Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

Authors:Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper surveys the formation and development of the insurance business in Brazil. It describes its origins, from colonial times and the imperial era to recent events.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

Taiwan-based HTC Corp. faced difficult times by 2012. CEO Peter Chou, who drove HTC's transformation from an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for other companies to a well-known global player in smartphones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

(foreign and domestic), its government, and private Argentine companies that had to do business in the post-renegotiation environment. The case also discusses the larger issue of how the international financial community should handle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Japan had all grown several times larger over the same period. What happened to this global retail giant? With Benetton under private ownership, would Harvard Business School graduate Alessandro Benetton be able to make the changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne