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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Rockman, Sven Beckert, and David Waldstreicher. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming Abstract The traditional story of modern management begins in the factories of England and New England, extending only much later to the American South. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-120.pdf A Theory of Explicitly Formulated Strategy Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract When a CEO tries to formulate "a strategy," what is she looking for? What exactly is "a strategy," why does it matter, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Access to credit is critical to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other hidden barriers to organizational learning. Five Steps to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
low-quality care,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. Edmondson and her colleagues studied the survey responses of clinicians at a midwestern health organization over a four-year period; they report on the dynamics of... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used by multi-sided platforms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
connected than oneself was associated with more friendship formation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53066 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything from a proprietary View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands has become a worldwide View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign, which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro-level benefits of this campaign, which involved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
What applications might they suggest, William A. Sahlman asked his students, for "electronic ink"—particles and dyes, embedded in a surface, that could be charged to form changing texts without the bother of paper and printing?... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
http://www.directorsandboards.com/html/curissue.html Working Papers Principals and Their Car Dealers: What Do Targets Tell About Their Relation? By: Bouwens, Jan, Eddy Cardinaels, and Jingwen Zhang Abstract—In this study we describe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review More Than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy By: Campbell, Dennis, John Case, and Bill Fotsch Abstract—Fifty years ago a good blue-collar job was with a large View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School who studies the curious relationship between managerial incentives and motivation. “Family CEOs are a very interesting group” "Family CEOs are a very interesting group," says Sadun, coauthor of the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
next couple of years, near term he is producing discussion papers in the hopes of getting feedback and more leads. The first in this series, Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy, cowritten with HBS research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace