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  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

multi-level antecedents, mediating processes, and outcomes. We also discuss error management processes such as prevention, resilience, and learning and call for research to expand our currently limited understanding of how these View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs might look at bonds and equities in a very different light: They may value the fact that, regardless of their short-term fluctuations in prices, bonds offer a safe stream of cash flows—their coupons, and their principal at the end of the life of the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged. Many wondered if poor stock market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

companies was Pierre Foods, a producer and distributor of processed and precooked protein products that had experienced several years of promising sales growth and held a leading market position. Despite this, 2007 saw Pierre foods... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

breaks down or needs expediting. And how about her uncanny ability to decode behavioral cues—subtle signs of disagreement or even hostility among subordinates in meetings? How does she do that? That storehouse of unwritten process... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46651 The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms' and Their Analysts' Research Activities By: Maber, David A., Boris Groysberg, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—In traditional markets, the price mechanism directs the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

the East and the Pacific Northwest. However, the recent expansion in ethanol production is changing the pattern of grain flow along with stimulating the local farm economy. SDWG's management and producer board must decide how to continue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

must work and interact with other components. This standardization process is under tremendous stress. Many disputes roiling courts and administrative bodies around the world-such as those involving Apple, Google, Microsoft, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence affect new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

of unit culture was also associated with a significantly higher risk of prolonged length of stay (RR 4.13, 95% CI 1.98–8.64), postpartum hemorrhage (RR 2.57, 95% CI 1.58–4.18), and blood transfusion (RR 1.87, 95% CI 1.12–3.13). Proactive management of patient View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting the two, and further reconcile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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