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- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
fundamentals are significantly lower only in low precision countries. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1160416 Working Papers Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? By: Bhalotra,... 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
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
become an online reseller of used children's clothes, buying inventory from parents and reselling it to other parents. "The problem with the MSP model is that it is sometimes too slow and not sufficiently convenient for either side," says MSP expert Andrei Hagiu, an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
increase the quality of employee-company matches (measured through employee departures of newly hired employees, store-level employee turnover, and store performance) except when store managers are inexperienced and/or overly busy. Yet, we find that centralized hiring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
operated this way or felt this way. Many are relieved to hear the condition has a name." Harvard is fertile ground for HNAPs, too. DeLong plans to make his book required reading in the second year courses on Authentic Leadership and Power and Influence, asking... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
according to Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Cavallo, who bases his findings on a decade’s worth of pricing data, sees two notable changes with large multichannel retailers: faster... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 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
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
and lead author of the paper “Pseudo-Set Framing,” written while she was a doctoral student at Harvard Business School. The term “pseudo-set” refers to the idea that the set is kind of arbitrary—manufactured for the sole purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
JetBlue moved from a single aircraft type (i.e., the Airbus 320, or A320) to a fleet with two types of aircraft by adding the smaller Embraer 190, or E190. Students are initially asked to consider the impact of this decision on JetBlue's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
measures have strong out-of-sample predictive performance and are stable over time. Our measures of the Big Five personality traits are associated with financing choices, investment choices, and firm operating performance. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
response. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of four possible courses of action and make a recommendation. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913505-PDF-ENG Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B) Robert G. Eccles and Catherine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
their handsets. The GSM Association predicts that by 2012, nearly 300 million of the previously "unbanked" will be using some form of mobile banking. “The mistake a lot of us make is to look at the folks at the base of the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green building represents. The contributors consider the changes associated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shifts in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
no blockages. Blockages can backfire, however, if they are difficult to work around in a policy-compliant manner and problem-solving support is unavailable. Under these conditions, blockages led to a risky workaround associated with a 10X... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne