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  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Cup Series, we model the probability that a driver crashes his car in a race. Our findings are that drivers crash their vehicles with greater frequency when their positions are increasingly at risk of displacement by their nearby, lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 per message. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

and allies during and after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The article assesses the thinking behind the Tudeh’s strategy of unwavering support for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his Islamist allies, even after other major leftist... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, managers and scholars need to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

assess whether to hold or sell their shares in Eddie Bauer. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/110008/ Eddie Bauer (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 110-009 In February 2007, shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we find that product assessments by powerful stakeholders and peer agencies influence product approval and that their effects vary under different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

contractual, reputational, and legal risks to overcome in making the project a success. Given these risks, Enterprise is unsure whether to rebuild in New Orleans at all and whether to renovate the site or redevelop it into a mixed-income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks, based on reflections on the risk assessment and sanctioning of a $1 billion credit proposal. Students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2015
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Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

vehicles while they catch their breath and assess their interests, unity, and risk tolerance. Longer term, they might start or buy another operating company, while keeping some portion of their assets,... View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 06 Dec 2004
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Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

micro-theorists in economics call biased risk-evaluation?...[It's one in which the bias prevails that you] attach 'gain' to a probabilistic assessment and you trigger action; attach 'loss' to it, you get inaction." Pallavi Marathe... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609016-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum Harvard Business School Case 710-004 Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2013
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Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

Would they exert influence to shape the environment? Or would they try to hedge? "They had to imagine themselves making a decision," Mikes says. "I asked them to be the CEO: 'Now that these scenarios have been presented to you, what are you going to do... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Ventures. Forces students to grapple with the nature of financial risk in the start-up firm and assess the prospective risks and returns to a lender to such a firm. To reach a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 21, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807074   PublicationsPerspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:Chemical Heritage Press, 2007 Abstract Perspectives on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, sovereign credit risk analysis, and design of sovereign risk mitigation and control strategies. Applications for investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

consumers in their homes and workplaces. Using a novel web-based face tracking system, we continuously measure consumers' smile responses as well as their viewing interest and purchase intent. A simultaneous Bayesian hierarchical model is estimated to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12

article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2016
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The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

situations that are not amenable to quantitative risk modeling. They argue that firms can avoid the artificial choice between quantitative and qualitative risk management, allowing both to play important... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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