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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Fonterra to enhance its competitive position. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-453 Novartis: A Transformative Deal When Joe Jimenez became CEO of Swiss-based Novartis in 2010, replacing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
fundamentally alter both the rate and direction of startup innovation across industries, regions, and periods of time. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49256 Spring 2015 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on incentives for both consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control of the selling company. And it's increasingly a bigger... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
psychological research points toward new directions in the understanding of what makes a negotiation work or not work. In an article recently published in the Annual Review of Psychology, HBS Professor Kathleen L. Valley, HBS Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
challenge ahead. We’ve included direct responses from our 600 CEOs to reflect their current thinking and concerns. Nutrition and hydration This may seem obvious—but under stressful or traumatic conditions the body’s usual signals of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
trade with arbitrageurs. Consistent with the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, risk taking,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
through direct interaction with the growers. Each year he presents a "Golden Tomato" award at a ceremony attended by all Mutti farmers. It's an opportunity not only to recognize them for a job well done and to share ideas, but also to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame that challenge inside your... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
more likely to return to work when initial socialization focused on personal identity as compared to a focus on organizational identity or a control condition. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these relationships. We call... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace