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  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

with coalition partners. Could India make the right decisions needed to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712038-PDF-ENG 1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

pharmaceutical companies, government regulators—can play a role in righting the industry. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care and a shinier future for human well-being. Pre-order this book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

and new offerings like the Geek Squad, the company’s stock tripled in 2013. The same human connection Joly cultivated at Best Buy can be found in the pages of his new book, The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
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Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College; all... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

Nyende, Claire Ashton-James, and Michael I. Norton Abstract This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • News

How Teams Are Retaining Employees Right Now

  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on an ontological model of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

bankers, board members, or consultants). Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209137 First National Bank's Golden Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 208-072 Executives at View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

human capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-013.pdf Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric

By: Tom Nicholas
This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I... View Details
Keywords: Returns To Education; Management Practices; Hierarchies; Management Practices and Processes; Rank and Position; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Business History; United States
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  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This is the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

rates in Asia, and high wage rates in Italy. Two plans have been presented to the CEO, Antonio Colombo. The first is to push development of all of the company's technologies, perhaps even seeking new markets for them. The second is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

more likely to attract revenue-generating alliances with downstream partners; however, (ii) the positive relationship between in-licenses and downstream alliances attenuates as firms mature, and (iii) the diversity and the quality of the academic connections of firms'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008

company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which stipulated that less-than-proportional votes increase in parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

who also headed a think tank for creating patentable business ideas. "When Jay first started talking about the principles that would shape Priceline, I knew we were really on to something," Brier says. Once Priceline was up and running,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner