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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

colonialism; land dispossession; and across the breadth of the continent, the dislocation of Native peoples from their homelands. This exhibition invites us to engage with this complicated imagery both to reflect on history and to confront the View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

determining per capita income today. We find technological persistence across long epochs: from 1000 B.C. to 0 A.D., from 0 A.D. to 1500 A.D., and from 1500 A..D to the present. Although the data allow only some suggestive tests of rival... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

  PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

situations that are heavily or completely determined by chance. We examine whether such overestimation of control persists in situations where people do have control. Our results suggest a simple model that accounts for prior findings on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position. This result holds true regardless of the strength of Linux's demand-side learning.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

season and what it will take to win over anxious customers. Here's what they said. Jill J. Avery: Mind the details and focus on customer service Persistent unemployment plagues many families, and people are saving more and spending less... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

expenditures on education per capita and led to higher literacy rates and to more schools per children. The resulting distribution of human capital across states persists until today. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1566887... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

the job? What do you think separates top performers from mediocre ones? After testing the advice gathered from these interviews, Ng started coaching early-career professionals and distilled every lesson learned into this step-by-step... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-104.pdf Elections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

available at this time. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance Authors:Thomas J. DeLong, John Gabarro, and Robert Lees Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract For too long, professional services... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

marketmakers have come to the fore. Current counterparts to the free-standing enterprises of the early 20th century in the performance of administrative arbitrage can be found in national capital that camouflages itself as foreign capital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

desirable part of an employee’s day, our theory and results point to the benefits of viewing it as a useful time period to engage in goal-directed prospection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50419 Diversity and Team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

anti-inflationary stance, while the more recent decrease in bond risks after 1997 is attributed primarily to an increase in the persistence of monetary policy interacting with continued shocks to the central bank's inflation target.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

induced by the promise of temporary sharing, sharers of uninhibited selfies come across as having worse judgment relative to those who share relatively discreet selfies (studies 1, 2, & 4–7)—an attributional pattern that is unanticipated by sharers (study 3), View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

advised Emara to switch roles with her male COO cofounder, at least while she was fundraising. "There were a lot of issues on the investor side, and, honestly, they persist today," she says. The collaborative, big-picture approach behind... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
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Leadership Development Plan (PLDP) There is one simple overarching criterion for assessing performance in all three areas: Are you “all in”? Are you deeply engaged in this different kind of work? Are you giving this your best shot? Course... View Details