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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional wisdom about View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
Austin, Texas, in 2017, and Ryan Raffaelli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS, to learn more about the vinyl renaissance. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. Gazette: Why have vinyl records come back into favor... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
that because a sufficient number of R&D intensive firms were located in counties with lower levels of bank distress, or were operating in less capital intensive industries, the negative effects were mitigated in aggregate. Although Depression era bank distress was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
of whether someone will behave unethically. Two, among those who do cheat, cheating reduces levels of the hormone associated with psychological stress. In other words, people may use cheating as a means of relieving stress. The good news... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
disconnection," May 16, 2014, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, p. 9A (reprinted from The Washington Post, May 15, 2014). Original Article Some years ago, my spouse and I had a conversation with a former student over dinner and a fine... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
to facilitate it," says Professor of Management Practice Clayton S. Rose, who sees in Armstrong's story an ideal vessel for teaching lessons about business ethics and leadership. Along with research associate Noah Fisher, Rose wrote... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
those floating around in the industry." (Vanitha Rangganathan); and "We chase stars because we are fallible Glamor always is enticing." (Vadeed Lobo) Women are particularly successful in porting their skills because " women are more View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
study by Michael Luca, Harvard Business School’s Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, in collaboration with Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business;... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt warned his students and industry executives against “marketing myopia”—that is, adopting an insular marketing approach where the business puts its own needs ahead of... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
Publications August 2013 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy and Competition By: Collis, David Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment trust. The case confronts students with the question: To what extent is this spin-off... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
rainy ones," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Bradley R. Staats (HBS MBA '02, DBA'09) of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Jooa Julia Lee... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
associate professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business. She co-authored the paper with Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
Government; Hanne Collins, a PhD student at Harvard Business School; and Frances Chen, associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. The paper was published in the September 2020... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
stores of a large retailer, I find that increasing the amount of labor at a store is associated with an increase in profitability through its impact on conformance quality but not its impact on service quality. While increasing labor is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
firm, which utilizes a large distributor base and depends on this individual distributor base to sell its products, giving explicit incentives for these individual distributors to both sell its products and sign up other distributors. The case gives View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne