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  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

would jump-start change at SGDU, she began to suspect (correctly) that people throughout the unit were talking about its strategy—and she further suspected that plenty of managers a couple of layers down had insights that she needed to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of foreign... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, technological progress in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-117.pdf Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend, and James Vickery Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

perspective over the last 30 years, they write, with these changes often occurring in tandem with broader developments in psychology and in society as a whole. Most recently, analysis has begun to look at social or personal factors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism View Details
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

"leadership gap" and describe barriers to implementing leadership development training in health care. Next, they present evidence that leaders are not just "born" but, rather, can be "made" and offer a set... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

bad process—one perceived as unfair, illegitimate, or simply confusing—can create unnecessary barriers to agreement and that good process design can promote breakthroughs. Principle 4: Breakthrough Negotiators Foster Agreement When... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

insisted that the greatest barriers for inner city development today are negative perceptions. These areas are not just economically distressed because of social issues, he said, adding that unless businesspeople take steps to build... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some aspect of their own... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

clusters is the idea that immigrants could be forced into them by discrimination or high barriers to enter other fields. “Many industries require certain standards be passed or degrees from accredited schools, which can be difficult for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

existence of passive leadership constitutes a substantial barrier to candid dialogue and debate within organizations. Leaders can and should take concrete steps to build conflict into their decision-making processes. For instance, they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

Arabic, and Korean, require speakers to use a completely different structure to speak of the future—for example, changing "It is raining today" to "It will be raining tomorrow." In other languages, such as German, Swedish, Chinese, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

as new players enter these markets and change the ecosystem of the industry. Although no single model has been successfully imported from one country to another due to significant country-specific differences in the regulatory financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

subsequent agenda, thereby altering resource allocation. The opportunity to delay decisions leads the players to act against their short-run interests by changing the expected decision delay. We characterize delay equilibria and explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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