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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

to increased representation of women in the top percentiles of achievement. Stereotypes and Belief Updating By: Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni Abstract— We explore how beliefs respond to noisy information about own ability across a range of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

"multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius 2012) offers an analytic approach that may enjoy descriptive and prescriptive advantages over more traditional approaches that focus on a specific negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

purposes. Defense, hunting, whatever. And as we know in recent years, they've been used for bad things as well. So, every new technology has things that we can benefit from and things that we have to be careful about. I do feel that we need a good, thoughtful, View Details
Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

from its traditional focus on the midstream of the value chain. The case raises questions involving competitive positioning, corporate strategy, sustainable development, and the management of business and political risk. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

insights; describes how the technique should be adapted for use in an entrepreneurial context; and offers tips and cautions about applying the technique. The techniques include customer surveys, usability tests, market trials, split tests, and Net Promoter Score.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

attentional focus improves perceivers’ ability to judge group effectiveness. Finally, we find that perceivers with higher levels of social sensitivity are more accurate at judging group effectiveness. We discuss the implications of these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

The Race Against Resistance

unsuccessfully. Kimble points to San Francisco–based Achaogen, which filed for bankruptcy last April despite securing regulatory approval for one of its antibiotic treatments in 2018. Given the catch-22s of making a profit on antibiotics,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

focus on preemptive actions people take before engaging in such behavior. Second, we focus on concurrent strategies, examining how people restructure situations such that their behavior seems less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

executives in the core businesses, rather than ambitious young MBAs, should be assigned to growth initiatives; 3) Assembling the wrong team and staffing up prematurely. CEOs should focus on capabilities, not who's available, and staff up... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

delivering this news, you'll miss any opportunity to present it in the most constructive context. What are some standards of legitimacy? Many possible standards can guide this dialogue: There are, for instance, regulatory requirements... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

Apparel (B) The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious value proposition and resulting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

characteristics such as pollution levels, regulatory compliance, environmental management practices that affect operations (such as environmental auditing), and stakeholder engagement (such as environmental reporting). Where Rankings Go... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

like a renewed democratic process and appropriate regulatory regimes. I believe that these problems are usually best dealt with by the state, but in many cases that is not happening." Moreover the private sector has resources and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

will focus on creating infrastructure that will increase the bank's ability to communicate effectively in an environment of macroeconomic uncertainty. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

labor policies. As to foreign direct investment, any American business person contemplating an investment elsewhere must take into consideration all of the policies mentioned above, as well as for the foreign country into which the investment is to be made—plus risk:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Professor Gunnar Trumbull disagrees. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests, Trumbull shows how groups such as consumers can effect change by forming interest-driven alliances among activists, regulators, and corporations. "The core... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley