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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and Kurt Vonnegut said, “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.” To which MacDonald himself might have added, Not a bad day’s work for a guy who... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
2019 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership By: Hill, Linda A. Abstract—In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
capital markets, standard setters, and financial analysts and how managers make accounting choices. But as accounting scholars have focused on understanding how markets and users process accounting data, they have distanced themselves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too
plunging in and out of puddles of melted snow. My future career was far from my mind, but even at that young age, I was contemplating the world and my place in it. In Appalachia, opportunity ebbs and flows with the demand for steel and... View Details
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
product expectations and win over the mainstream personal care category. Can Burt's Bees become the "Starbucks of personal care" without distancing itself too much from the people, values, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
calm. What makes you unique? I'm a young mom! Probably the youngest in HBS, the only black mom and the only mom that commutes from such a long distance (45- to 90-minute drive View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
generation of workers, just as it did after the Great Depression. Q: Maintaining a professional distance from work, a full life outside of work, and a sense of humor all helped the CEOs in your study. Could... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
distance themselves from seekers who they learn consulted others, an effect mediated by perceptions that their own advice will be disregarded. Underlying these effects is an asymmetry between advisors’ and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and performance feedback from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are segmented according to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
revenues from Japanese companies and fans: pitcher or position player, player's popularity, non-stop flights from Japan, distance from Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
principle, be instantly acquired, clarity may take time to develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
http://hbr.org/product/producing-prosperity-why-america-needs-a-manufactu/an/10345-HBK-ENG?referral=00304 Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement Author: Michel Anteby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
and floor workers. (In gauging the factors that determine whether a firm adopts any given technology, the researchers considered geographic variables that might affect the cost of acquiring the technology—the firm's distance View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel