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  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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a healthy appetite for risk can shape a life Blissful Thinking Happiness research is all the rage. How understanding the origins of joy can improve the way we lead organizations—and our personal lives What We’re Reading View Details
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

nuclear agency, recently asserted, "The iceberg of sanctions is melting while our centrifuges are still working." To mitigate the risk of such "deal drift," the United States and its allies should set a realistic, hard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

for several days in the future? Most economic models predict that decisions do not systematically differ on such short timescales. We use a novel panel data from an online grocer to conduct analyses suggesting that people are decreasingly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

the United States. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-015.pdf Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com Author:Michael Luca Abstract Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Harvard Business School Case 109-017 This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

boundaries and high in their interiors. Several novel implications arise from this work. Among these: Modularizations create new module boundaries, hence new transaction locations where entry and competition can arise. Areas in the task... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial as a particular risk for large, established organizations as much as for young, entrepreneurial firms? Is denial a predictable downside to success? A: Denial is more endemic to older firms because it so often results from stubborn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

innovation in higher education. How does HBS deal with the risks and opportunities of disruptive innovation for its own long-term development? Ha Xuan Trung (MBA 1978), Brookline, Massachusetts More About The HBS Campaign Investing In... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future, this cross-genre View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

than shepherding an innovation through the entire commercialization process. We argue that this binary outcome—i.e., success via acquisition—creates different opportunities and threats for new entrants and has important and novel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

management, still a novel concept in that era, a move that initially met resistance. But because TQM forced company-wide excellence in everything, not only in product quality, “It was one of the best things I ever did in a leadership... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne