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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

important activity for pioneering entrepreneurs, they are unconsciously aided by other actors who are acting out of self-interest rather than from a desire to actively help these entrepreneurs. Furthermore, entrepreneurs are aided by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

of Health Care Reform Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Raffaella Sadun, and Richard G. HamermeshHarvard Business School Case 711-403 Per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

to act as "citizen diplomats," spreading greater understanding of our values and helping countries that empower their people and build their economies. Develops an ethos of a community that cares... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that fosters progress takes some careful effort. In their new book, The Progress Principle: Using... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting that the lines between financial service sectors are blurring. Today's bank offers many of the services of a brokerage firm, and vice versa. Congress's repeal of the 1933... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

of the inner workings of the firm, fires the CEO but appoints an acting CEO while a talent consultant is hired to begin a search for a replacement. Given the natural bias of the search firm and the board's recent bitter experience, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

that is not a profession? Phil Clark's comment characterizes the first line of thought. As he put it, an "elite B-school degree is seen as a ticket to connections to 'take care of (oneself),' not necessarily to provide value to any... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

a discussion of the following questions: How might the current manufacturers of Plavix handle these emerging threats to their leading blockbuster? How might Plavix's potential competitors utilize Plavix's mixed history to their advantage? How should genotyping be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

build an informal network of relationships with executives and business managers, which allowed them to resist being stereotyped as either compliance champions or business partners. Instead they created and shaped the perception of their role which was of their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

should be a blessing in negotiation, of course. But picking the best possible deal takes careful planning. The set of techniques outlined here will put you on the right path. Beyond Batnas According to basic negotiation theory, Jim's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive interaction between two platform providers that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

policy, and the importance of contact capabilities, this study builds on and extends the earlier suggestions that entrepreneurship needs incorporating as an explanatory factor. The article shows that Koç acted as both a Kirznerian and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

every adult a voice, regardless of race. Democracy is the ultimate act of confidence because it implies a willingness to share power with other people who might have different views or speak in a different voice. Leaders often come in... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

negatively affecting each other's revenues—drivers poaching each other's fares, or stylists advertising against one another—then that would seem to tilt the balance in favor of the traditional business mode. "If the spillovers are negative, and the professionals only... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

Protection Act of 2006, which mandated in part that employees be automatically enrolled in a pension plan upon hiring and must choose to opt out rather than opt in—Bohnet, Bazerman, and van Geen decided to apply the theory to evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

International: The Second Act Harvard Business School Case 209-110 Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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