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  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

name of the corporation that they would feel wrong doing in their personal lives, but they are not legally required to do so. Directors are not common carriers, or, to put it more crassly, prostitutes in locales where prostitution is... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world: the Eurotunnel, Hong Kong Disneyland, and the Airbus A380, to View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key omnichannel tactic; specifically, the introduction of showrooms (physical locations where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

not being cheated? I've been looking at this for five years from a technical perspective. But it has struck me that this is basically an economic problem, namely a problem with incentives. The fraudsters do what they do with reasonable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

challenging areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55885 Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Gamified training is a novel management... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Download paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
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Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the introduction and impact of lean management techniques in a nontraditional setting we are able to move beyond the artifacts and gain insight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

they go about assessing things like creativity, trust, and loyalty? This set of cases puts the students into the roles of the seller (an advertising agency named Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners) and the buyer (MINI USA) and asks them to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

3,399 restaurants, grocers, and schools in Alaska, Illinois, and New Jersey. The information contained names of the inspectors and establishments inspected, date and time of the inspection, and violations recorded. In addition to studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 20 Apr 2009
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Misgovernance at the World Bank

particular scandal; in fact, the Bank is probably among the cleanest and better-managed of the inter-governmental organizations. But the Bank's institutional structure, namely a representative and highly active Executive Board, made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

how to market sustainable tea in developing markets like India. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712438-PDF-ENG The Change Wheel: Elements of Systemic Change and How to Get Change Rolling Rosabeth Moss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

field experiment on Airbnb, we find that requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names. The difference persists whether the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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