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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
direct; 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time; and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the decision process. On the General... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, and more recent conversations specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we’ve talked with many Harvard Business School alumni the world over. Here are some examples of how... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
information in online retail. In our experiments, customers are randomly assigned to a treatment condition where virtual fit information is available or to a control condition where virtual fit information is not available. Our results show that offering virtual fit... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
healthcare. As a joint endeavor, Project Antares was born from conversations between Chu, the School of Public Health's Barry Bloom, who is dean of the faculty, and David Bloom (not related), a professor of population and health... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
struggled to realize good returns from investments since the year 2000. Many traditional investors are questioning whether they should continue to provide capital to these funds. But given the important role that venture capital has had in spurring innovation, it is... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
physician‒patient encounters, then leverage machine learning and natural language processing to convert verbal interactions into summarized, accurate visit notes and suggest billing codes—all without... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
conversation to broader topics pertaining to venture formation. Her first-name rapport with Dubinsky reflected more than their experience as business-school classmates. Beyond serving as MBA Class of 1961 professor of management practice... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is sparse; and electricity is unreliable. Yet, Nigeria has all the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in economics, marketing, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
having no troubles, but overcoming them. The secret of winning streaks is obvious—not to lose; avoiding losing streaks is just as obvious—not to lose twice in a row. Streaks are about confidence and momentum. No organization or situation is perfect; troubles are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the complementary View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. Each of the book’s nineteen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important, however, is the lack of a common framework and even language that would allow engineers, lawyers, and business executives to manage IP assets better. This article provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
required to create and deliver a product or service, from procurement through conversion to distribution." In the following interview, Hayes explains why operations usually gets relegated to a support role and what needs to be done... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
phenomena such as voice, teamwork, team learning, and organizational learning. A growing body of conceptual and empirical work has focused on understanding the nature of psychological safety, identifying factors that contribute to it, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne