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- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as performance and the management committee's response. Allows for discussion of 1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Psychology Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53003 Harvard Business School Case 717-445 AKB48: Going Global? (A) After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability By: Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando Abstract—We examine the role of management in agricultural productivity by evaluating a mobile-phone based agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
for patient risk and surgeon variability, we evaluated the impact of surgeon experience on cardiopulmonary bypass and cross-clamp times, and long-term survival. Results: Mean surgeon experience after fellowship graduation was 16.0 ± 11.7... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
firms, which are most equity dependent, and is larger in industries with higher exposure to misvaluation shocks. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719204 A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
Investment Conundrum Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa StropeHarvard Business School Case 811-073 Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010. Her first assignment is to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
concerning the degree to which scientific activity can be evaluated via numerical metrics, the extent to which R&D can be structured as a process, and the degree to which decision-making should be centralized in commercial R&D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
hiring in order to attract a sufficient number of applicants to meet their needs. They will also need to relax the many superfluous conditions they have applied in evaluating job seekers. Abandoning business models based on the assumption... View Details
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- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
avoid information about their relative ability. August 2013 NBER Volume on African Economic Successes Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative By: Ashraf, Nava,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
every technique with a broader perspective. That began early in the semester, when Hart challenged students to ask, "What is opportunity, how do I either discover it or create it, how do I evaluate it in the framework of others that... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Jacinto C. Gavino of the Asian Institute of Management in Manila suggested that, given such constraints, there should be an evaluation mechanism developed to help focus research on the most important issues. “In developing economies, we... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able to View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
companies is evaluated by linking the 2007 SBO to the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). We quantify the dependency of the United States as a whole, as well as individual states, on the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs in terms... 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
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
evaluate business development opportunities. Driven by cash needs, they may call this "experimentation," but in effect they tell salespeople to "go forth and multiply!" By selling to anyone, though, ventures fragment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors. In particular, how does a board really know the leadership style of its senior operating management and the culture of the company for which it has fiduciary responsibility? Most boards do a good job of evaluating their CEOs... View Details