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- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
to choose a single word to summarize the reasons behind Southwest's financial and business successes, it would have to be "discipline." Although Southwest's employees can be as zany as their CEO (in a flight to Austin during the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
offshore platforms as the organizational environment for your research? A: We selected this setting because we knew it to be one where the work is hazardous and the workforce largely male—and, in these respects, similar to the workplaces in the ethnographic accounts... View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
the plug on every idea brought their way. Q: You categorize these mistakes under the headings of strategy, process, structure, and skills. Could you summarize your remedies? A: Here are a few of the dozen lessons I offer in the article:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(PBOC) manages (some say manipulates) the dollar-yuan exchange rate. It discusses briefly the process of sterilization in China and the possible costs for the PBOC. Therefore, the note summarizes some of the main challenges the PBOC faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
behavior, the area where he has devoted his professional career at HBS. He also came to understand "how being an academic in many ways resembles being an entrepreneur, in that I have the opportunity to decide what ideas to pursue." View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
benefits; and theoretical work to guide the analyses. The paper summarizes likely motives for foreign direct investment and potential effects of FDI on local economies as well as recent findings from the macro literature on the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810086-PDF-ENG Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-033 This note summarizes basic principles of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But deadlines, as they so often do,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Business Judgement Rule: What Does the Law Say? No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-028 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D) This supplements the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
due to their abundant capital resources and long-term outlook. To be sure, this is not easy: Many of the challenges facing sovereign wealth funds are similar to those encountered in the other public venture capital and entrepreneurial promotion schemes that I've View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
people with little integrity and weak character. However, important research in recent decades strongly suggests that situational factors often dominate character in ethical decision making—for leaders and for members of their organizations. This note View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807032 A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders' Equity Splits Harvard Business School Note 809-110 This note summarizes key legal and tax issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
should receive strategic, forward-looking information, rather than information that just summarizes the past, such as quarterly and annual financial statements. While boards still need to review past performance, that information should... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
thought there was potentially something generalizeable in Oprah's journey. I've always been interested in individuals whose experience summarizes large lessons for our moment. So, here, I was interested in what is it about Oprah that... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Sorenstam didn't win, what measure would capture the sense of success that the public and this athlete clearly felt? There were many scores out there: David Owen of the New York Times summarized her success in terms of beating out forty... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711412-PDF-ENG Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act Robert C. Pozen, Phillip Andrews, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case Note 311-091 This note summarizes the four major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
and other ancillary services such as mergers and acquisition work, private placements, asset financings, and so on. The mixed results of prior research that we summarized in the Investor Relations Quarterly article are not surprising if... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
architecture. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55689 2019 Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2 Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets By: Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel, and Joshua Schwartzstein... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
cross-disciplinary group of mid-career, research-oriented faculty—has organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality research in the field of strategy. This editorial essay summarizes the group's view of the characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne