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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
the pandemic. About the Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Nikola Stojadinovic ] Related Reading Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog COVID's... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard research scientist to its use in flamethrowers by U.S. ground troops in World War II, and as an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
average, consistent with the Bayesian intuition that the market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the magnitude of the penalty. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
findings of behavioral scientists and experimental economists. Further, this approach does not generally assume that all the elements of the "game" are common knowledge. It tends to de-emphasize the application of game-theoretic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
examines how Schultz recruited, motivated, and inspired the students and scientists that worked with him. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910408-PDF-ENG Root Capital Harvard Business School Case 510-035 Founded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
years, business historians have often been fringe players in the study of globalization, while political historians, economists, sociologists, and political scientists have taken it forward in exciting ways and have built a vast... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
innovative drug candidates for testing in patients. Project teams consisted of Pfizer scientists and academics working side-by-side to reduce the time needed to bring a therapeutic drug from the lab to a patient's bedside. This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became more spatially concentrated across U.S. cities. The combination of these two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech firms by revenues. Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
political scientist Karl Deutsch and associates, relying on research conducted in the early 1950s, emphasized that the internationalization of transactions had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, and averred... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
exploit an exogenous reduction in H1B (visa) quotas and find that herbal patents filed by western firms based in the U.S. are driven by scientists of ethnic Indian and Chinese origin. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
Maarten Bos, Rick B. Van Baaren, and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Journal of Sleep Research (forthcoming) Abstract Both scientists and artists have suggested that sleep facilitates creativity, and this idea has received substantial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
wanted to invest. Roberts also took into account the possible impact on his mutually respectful relations with his fellow partners. From a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, Roberts became a scientist who did advanced study at Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Larry Smarr, the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), reflects on the Institute's past 10 years of successes and challenges. In 2010, more than 700 university scientists, artists, engineers, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne