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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
transportation infrastructure, they come up against an accountability and measurement problem: how to address an urgent request from Ghana to fund community services-such as schools View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
Why is it that the U.S. federal government allows local communities to give tax dollars to wealthy sports team owners rather than to create better benefits for citizens? Why are organ-donor programs constrained to the point where... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
3). These results add to the literatures on both Gricean conversational norms and goal-directed attention. We discuss the practical implications of our findings in the contexts of interpersonal communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene first, often with limited... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and... View Details
- June 2025
- Teaching Plan
SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea
By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 325-013 View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
How did you get them to set aside their differences, their traditional rivalries, and work together? Litow: We created a governance structure in which the community college system, through the City... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
“Most of my kids’ playmates are Finnish, and they have a Saturday morning school where they learn the Finnish language,” he says. “There are probably 8 to 10 organizations catering to the Finnish community... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 16, 2019
- Article
Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger
By: Leslie John, Hayley Blunden and Heidi Liu
Most jobs require us at some point to deliver bad news—whether it be a minor revelation such as a recruiter telling a prospective employee that there’s no wiggle room in salary, or something major, like when a manager must fire an employee. We dread such discussions... View Details
John, Leslie, Hayley Blunden, and Heidi Liu. "Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 16, 2019).
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
"That number is considerably lower than just about anyone I've asked has imagined," said Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008
communication technology sector in the United States, and find empirical support for the four hypotheses developed here. The research presented in this paper has implications for our understanding not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
(iStockphoto/tolgart) In 1992, the very funny cyberpunk novelist Neal Stephenson brought “the pizza Deliverator,” also known as Hiro Protagonist, to life along with the notion of the Metaverse in his book Snow Crash. Hiro, a “member of the hacker View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, with a decided turn against foreign enterprises operating in China from the 1950s, and radical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
engineering Koning’s research might be sobering to the cities and institutions that invest in startup-focused events and programs in the hopes of stirring innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
modularity," analyzing the case of SugarCRM. The modular architecture of this platform software is aligned with its intellectual property structure in such a way that the firm can derive, from the same code tree, an open source View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne