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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
that employees' boundary spanning contact with members of other organizations was associated with reports of negative relationships with external parties (e.g., work-specific problems, culture-specific problems). These negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
become an online reseller of used children's clothes, buying inventory from parents and reselling it to other parents. "The problem with the MSP model is that it is sometimes too slow and not sufficiently convenient for either side," says MSP expert Andrei Hagiu, an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
no blockages. Blockages can backfire, however, if they are difficult to work around in a policy-compliant manner and problem-solving support is unavailable. Under these conditions, blockages led to a risky workaround associated with a 10X... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
objective criteria or on subjectivity unrelated to the stated criteria. On average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing, authored by Hussam; Atonu Rabbani, an associate professor at the University of Dhaka; Giovanni Reggiani, then a doctoral student at MIT and now a consultant at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
associated with the incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Build It, Buy It Or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
it, we can all learn about the potential merits and difficulties of reparations.” In addition to writing the case with independent researcher Suzanne Antoniou and HBS research associate Leanne Fan, Desai also partnered with HBS multimedia... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
opportunities and resources, hurting their college enrollment and cutting them off from careers that could raise their standard of living. After all, American public schools are financed largely through local property taxes, with affluent areas spending more on their... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that linguistic complexity is positively associated with the language barriers in the firms' home country. We then show that conference calls that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
demonstrate that supplier factory compliance is associated not only with institutions in the supplier's home country, but also with institutions in the global buyer's home country: suppliers are more compliant with global labor standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the 2004–2006 period. Our estimates show that this lending increase is associated with a 3.3% rise in annual house price growth rate and a 2.2% expansion of employment in the non-tradable sectors. These effects are followed by a decline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
engage in self-creation and the utility that they derive from such activities. We propose that creating products fulfills consumers' psychological need to signal competence to themselves and to others, and that feelings of competence View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
Wharton School, and Emer Moloney, a research associate at HBS. The case describes the traditional production process for Parmigiano-Reggiano, commonly known in dairy circles as "The King of Cheeses." The supply chain begins with... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
words, "The 'pain' of conducting performance reviews is associated with a lack of clear mutual (management and employee) understanding of their purpose." At the heart of this concern was whether they are intended primarily to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies (revised) Authors:Erin M. Reid and Michael W. Toffel Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin and research... View Details