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- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
feel. Lees and Cikara found similar results for other scenarios, involving changes to selection of judges, campaign financing, and renaming of a state highway. (The researchers purposefully stayed away from “hot button” issues such as gun... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
was selected as the start point for two reasons: First, it was when the CEO of BigAC observed that less than 10 percent of the candidates for partnership were female—this after a decade of actively recruiting highly qualified women. And... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and, second, that simply assigning a group of people to work together makes them a team. We point out that assigning a team to carry out a job may not always be the best way. Sometimes it's more effective to let a gifted individual do it by him or herself or with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
to choose the ecofriendly bulb, but they also reported that price was the attribute they actually cared about most. Next, another group of participants simply observed the choice that other people made: the selection of the ecofriendly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
selected and treated so that they would self-assemble (due to intrinsic molecular forces). This resulted in finer battery structures and better performance. Following 14 months of research and development, the company found that it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
dictator's fall from power (e.g., in Egypt), we should focus on building relationships with the country's many future leaders and constituents. This outreach should include all parties that will be relevant in the future, not just those... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
audience mix, as does the element of national pride that comes with victory and the emotional flag-raising ceremony that follows. The brand power of the Olympics is also fueled by business and marketer attention, especially sponsorship and broadcasting. The View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
in organizational behavior (OB), this is a fundamental departure from the extant operations management (OM) literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
revealed eight key factors to prevent Olympic sites from becoming white elephants from the viewpoints of venue sustainability and Olympic legacy: removal of specific equipment like a track after the Olympic Games; reducing capacity after the Olympic Games; continuous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
when selecting team members, including finding the right number of people, individual skills along both technical and interpersonal dimensions, and a mix of skills appropriate for the task. Once the team is designed, team View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
with the conditioned odor, participants were found to be (i) more creative and (ii) better able to select their most creative idea than participants who had been exposed to a control odor or no odor while sleeping. These findings suggest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
inadvertently omitted from social contract negotiations. For example, in 1988, Komatsu, Japan's leader in earth-moving construction equipment, and U.S. conglomerate Dresser Industries combined their North American engineering,... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
require construction of broader coalitions of policymakers, place more constraints on executive decision making, and have more competitive selection processes. As a result, there are stronger political motivations for Vietnamese View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
acquisitions. We find that the use of stock and related transaction predicts better long-run performance. Our results suggest that the acquirers of private venture capital-backed companies do not suffer any adverse selection problem and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
in sequence, map onto how very young children play. These components are (1) focusing on substitutes and borrowing selectively from peers, (2) testing assumptions about profit logics before committing to one, and (3) pausing with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne