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  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

macro components. The micro component comes from the selection of low beta stocks. The macro component comes from the selection of low beta countries or industries. The two parts both contribute to the low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 10 (2009): 4129-4156 Abstract Many investors purchase their mutual funds through intermediated channels, engaging and paying brokers or financial advisors for fund selection and advice. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

diverse units, employees, and constituencies. In this chapter, we describe how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for strategy implementation. We also discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

elusive search for properties that make organizations adaptable. This paper argues that the research program on dynamic capabilities needs to be reset around the fundamental strategic problem facing firms: how to identify and select... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

in Oral Care Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-120 In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive (Colgate) was the global leader in oral care, with a dominant market share lead in toothpaste and a growing presence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

practiced. According to Maris Martinsons, "There is strong evidence to suggest that selections a) within a specified domain of expertise, b) involving a small number of choices, and c) ranging from simple to a moderate level of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leading virtually and globally." Other suggestions were for more investigation of topics such as "ethical leadership and inclusive growth" (Praveen Zala), the impact of more globally oriented and younger leaders (Jack... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. Explores the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to develop its track record of excellence. In light... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Here we explore the effects of "sleeping on it" on preference-based decisions among multiple options. In two studies, individuals viewed several attributes describing a set of items and were asked to select their preferred item... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

engaging 2,500 commentators, ultimately selecting four finalists who will benefit from an advisory network of health care industry leaders (including many HBS alumni), be the subject of a teaching case, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

confirm that homophily, which here likely arises from social influence, permeates all scales of human behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51392 May 2016 Seminars in Oncology Nursing Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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