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  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

activities, we found that they feel compelled to address hot-button issues and are guided by their own values as well as the history and culture of their organization. They also complement their public activities with a “ground game”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities of globalization. Maybe most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

  Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

the death or bankruptcy of at least one seller, are sold at lower prices than other houses. Foreclosure discounts are particularly large, on average, at 28% of the value of a house. The pattern of death-related discounts suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

must be willing to re-earn credibility by proving their value and winning their new colleagues' trust. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0612J L'innovazione nella grande impresa:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach By: Fisher III, William W., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help that these built-in features... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

groups, such as the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, work in partnership with business, government, and community leaders to promote business models that emphasize the public good. Beyond government and NGOs, other parties put their money where their View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 03 Oct 2018
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How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

distinguish between these mechanisms. Approaches that seek to identify true value from demand, without specifying mechanisms behind this wedge, are most useful when researchers are interested in evaluating allocation policies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

focuses on interoperability: vendors should enable products to work together so customers can realize the full benefit of complementary products offered by competing vendors. Following this principle enables products to connect to each other in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

DTCA may provide educational value by informing and encouraging consumers to take advantage of the best treatments available. Other conditions, such as heartburn, can often be treated with changes in diet and lifestyle, or by less... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

$800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get $500) in their transactions (Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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