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- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Every entrepreneur's real control depends on the intensity of the business and the number and kinds of partners." HBS professors Linda A. Hill and Nancy F. Koehn led participants through two case studies of dynamic female business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
of companies' innovative portfolios. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-075.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
tolerance, can have substantial welfare costs. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13966 I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
support for the hypothesis that rising high-frequency turbulence in the sales of large publicly traded U.S. firms over the past three decades has raised their workers' high-frequency wage volatility. The evidence comes from two datasets: the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- Web
4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
may occur in other contexts, whether during events (such as lectures, seminars, speeches, or panel discussions) or through actions such as demonstrations. As outlined in the USRR and as articulated in Harvard Business School's Community... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
panel of advisers-resulting in a wealth of teaching moments bound to keep you captivated. Experts agree that many twentieth-century leadership practices won't work in the turbulent twenty-first century. This engaging book gives you the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
them effectively. The case studies are tied together by two broad themes: (1) the determinants and effects of international capital, and (2) policy-makers' management of these flows. The cases approach these themes by exploring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni asked probing questions of HBS... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
effect of boundary spanning contact on boundary spanners' negative attitudes toward their own jobs and organization (e.g., job attractiveness and confidence in the organization). Download the Paper: http://people.hbs.edu/lramarajan/Ramarajan%20et%20al%202010.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne