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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of new technologies of the highest and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
by traditional models of decision making under uncertainty and highlight the importance of increasing the salience of unfavorable information in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and understanding legal documentation relating to private equity transactions. The course will also explore legal issues involved in starting, joining or investing in start-ups... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806121 EMC Corp.: Proposed Acquisition of VMware 806-153 This case involves the decision by the CEO of EMC Corp. whether to acquire VMware, a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Q3Q4 3.0 Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Tiona Zuzul Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
of these customers. The model was used to help an online auction firm make several critical decisions including its pricing and marketing strategy as well as its overall firm valuation. HBS Focus: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
“I’ve also observed interesting team dynamics on these adventures. “There is a big difference between the team that celebrates making it to the summit and the same team that later has to rescue a teammate... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with them to Soldiers Field. This makes the dynamics of any given case discussion quite remarkable. The faculty has changed a lot, too. It used to be that the large majority of new hires came through our... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
worked well only at the early phase of modern economic growth and would not necessarily become an obstacle for dynamic development as the economies mature. Our research shows that while political institutions and capital markets have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
When former President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports in 2019, the economic dynamics between the world’s two biggest economies forever shifted. American businesses hoping President Joe Biden would return to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Disney, and Iridium, and Boston's Central Artery Project (the "Big Dig") in the public sector, are examples of some recent efforts that went bankrupt or had to be restructured. The managerial challenge is to figure out how to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
that specific, challenging goals motivate performance far better than "do your best" exhortations. The authors of this article, however, argue that it is often these same characteristics of goals that cause them to "go wild." How Can View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace