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- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
can be a competitor, but it can also be a collaborator” If anything, says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales S. Teixeira, that number understates the prevalence of media multitasking. "That 40 percent figure is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
prevalent for large diversified companies that operate in many different businesses. Financial analysts and investors may have an especially difficult time understanding what's going on in these companies, or may lack the industry... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
then collapsed suddenly in 1983. It was reborn at the end of the 1980s under Nintento's leadership, which was then challenged for a few years by Sega, only to be conquered by Sony's original PlayStation. And along the way, some companies such as 3DO had tried... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can provide to founders, and specifies potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
business was performing exceptionally well, Microsoft's leadership understood that cloud-based solutions would become more prevalent in the future. As the newly appointed president of STB, Satya Nadella had to find a balance between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger generations that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
chains had changed significantly. While a higher proportion of Americans exercised on any given day, the majority still did not, and the average number of hours exercised had remained essentially flat. Meanwhile, the prevalence of people... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
backlash," to the point where it is probably fair to characterize the prevalent mood, among practitioners at least, as one of pessimism rather than optimism about globalization. The evidence reviewed in the paper that you cite... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological character of communities, as many activists, popular-based movements, and theorists contend. The analysis we report here seeks to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
admissions, and, as a result, yield prevalence estimates that are lower than direct questioning (Studies 1–4, 5A, & 6), less accurate than direct questioning (Studies 1, 3, 4B, & 5A), and even nonsensical (i.e., negative, Studies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
in West Africa, 1950-1970 Author:Stephanie Decker Periodical:Business History Review 81 (spring 2007): 59-86 Abstract Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of a “spray and pray" investment approach—where investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
focuses on the most sensational scams (e.g., Enron, Bernard Madoff), less attention is given to more prevalent "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value morality but behave unethically when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
"financed payouts" are widespread, persistent, prevalent both among dividend-paying and repurchasing firms, and large in magnitude. Standard interpretations of agency or signaling theories are unable to explain this behavior. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50192 Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850 By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne