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  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

putting selection decisions in the hands of the powerful, as the saying goes, invite the fox into the chicken house? How do we make sure the right people end up with power in organizations? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car platforms, quantum computing, and CRISPR.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111070-PDF-ENG Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan Geoffrey G. Jones and Gayle Tzemach LemmonHarvard Business School Case 811-023 Explores the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

(virtually) talked with more than 50 “resilient” businesses across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

design of windows into and out of the organization’s operations—to help customers understand the value being added and to allow employees to see the impact of their work. How to Not Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren H. Cohen + More Info – Less Info In this session,... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

membership are negatively associated with social network utilization. Importantly, we further surmise and find that, in turn, social network utilization enhances the impact of a research article. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52368... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

data strategy. In Lakhani’s final case discussion, which explored internal and customer transformation at GE, it became clear that a data strategy wasn’t just about gathering and analyzing information—it can be the unifying principle in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

(2011) Abstract Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

this area in a variety of disciplines—economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy—in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In eleven varied papers, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

It's not often that a best seller inspires academic research. If anything, it's usually the other way around. But Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

this challenging time. This is the time to practice customer intimacy, not only customer centricity. Protect and pivot = exploit and explore Exploiting opportunities to make... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

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