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  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of design. It is our intent that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly held stocks if those stocks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

the firm and MIS research to argue that some types of information technology (IT) will be deployed only within hierarchical governance structures. This argument introduces a contingency into the 'electronic markets hypothesis,' which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

also attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50 years, women still hold only a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Center for Creative Leadership Harvard Business School Case 308-013 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership was not innate but could View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

by-product produced is exactly the amount that can be produced using the entire waste stream). The operational synergy in the joint production process is manifested as one of two subsidies: the by-product is subsidized by the disposal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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  • February 2007
  • Case

Update: The Music Industry in 2006

By: John R. Wells and Elizabeth Raabe
The global recorded music industry was undergoing a major transition in 2006. Sales had been declining for a decade, and consumers were buying music in new formats and through different distribution channels. CD sales still accounted for the majority of revenues, but... View Details
Keywords: History; Arts; Music Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Market Timing; Performance Evaluation; Trends; Music Industry
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  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate medical resources perform each process step. These actions enable costs to be reduced while maintaining or improving medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

running.” “By doing so, managers and customers alike stand to learn a lot about how well the company’s offerings fit with customers’ needs and preferences, so that better decisions can be made on both... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • December 2018
  • Case

Good Energy Group PLC

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Founded at the end of 1999 by Juliet Davenport and Martin Edwards, Good Energy was the number-two renewable-energy seller in the United Kingdom at the end of 2016, supplying over 71,000 of the country’s 27 million households and small businesses with 100% renewable... View Details
Keywords: Power/Energy; Green Energy; Renewables; Wind Power; Electricity; Power; Strategy Development; Electric Vehicles; Customer Service; Energy Policy; Barriers To Entry; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

Abstract—U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the United States. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

describes how they assessed their valuations and probabilistic views, and leaves them with a key decision. The (B) case describes their choice as well as the twists and turns leading to the conclusion. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

founded a world-renowned animation studio. What do all of these people have in common? They love their jobs, they break the rules, and the world is better off for it. They are rebels. From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino