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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
working, in parallel, on the governance aspects of the Balanced Scorecard. In the SFO book, we described the internal governance process by which the enterprise guides, monitors, and evaluates its strategic performance. We have a new case study on First Commonwealth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
over time. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394657 Working Papers Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
their broader interests were at stake and that it would be profitable in the long run for them to be reasonable when Indonesia was in the middle of a crisis. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing papers that expand on some... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
thus making our lives and those of others as orderly as possible. The first imperative is to resist the temptation, which radical uncertainty exacerbates, to panic. While hoarding paper products may seem like a “safe” option for us, it is... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste" If it seems we are a nation of... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
from a script. Instead, have one piece of paper with an introductory sentence, brief notes on four or five points that you want to make, and a conclusion sentence. Q: You advise against doing too much career planning. Why? A: I think... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
consequences of competitive arousal and of wanting to win at any cost." In this interview, Malhotra provides tips for doing just that. Manda Salls: Your paper opens with the unexpected money raised—over $3 million—in a "Cows on... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
corporation's business strategy. Mapping Board Performance Currently, prior to a typical board meeting, members receive reams of paper that are difficult to wade through and make sense of. Once the meeting is in progress, board members... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
end, participants agreed that while disease management is a thorny concept involving all these many constituencies, it might in some instances leave room for business potential in the form of a carve-out. A carve-out, as defined in the View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
commission on advertisers' outlays for media time and space. As the working paper points out, buying media time and space is a two-step process. The first, which the researchers refer to as the intermedia decision, involves selecting the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how different time zones affect employees’ ability to communicate in a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
are impacted most by regulation are those measuring working status, social networks, business skills, and attitudes toward risk. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14012 Bank Structure and the Terms of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
and Consumer Expectations Authors:Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti Abstract This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
occur relatively quickly when the underlying repugnance changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-077.pdf An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation Authors:Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman Abstract The purpose of this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
structure. “But it can also have the side effect of changing the nature of competition, especially when your rivals know you’re reacting to whatever price changes they might make.” When rivals change prices In their recent research paper... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
and conducted in collaboration with John and doctoral candidate Tami Kim. Their research is detailed in their paper The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others’ Preferences, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
humblebragging garners negative impressions because the strategy seems insincere, compared with pure bragging or pure complaining. They tested the hypothesis in a series of five studies, detailed in the paper Humblebragging: A... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
tenure as head of OnStar, one of his former employees, now a second-year student at HBS, enrolled in a relatively new course called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, taught by Christensen. The final paper required that... View Details