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- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
mentors can―and should―play in cultivating and sharing juniors' career narratives. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413122-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-111 Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future This note View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
I. Norton Abstract—While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for everyday experiences. We propose a conceptual model and provide convergent evidence from seven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse causality by exploring the regional pattern and process of agglomeration. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
he'd think about it and headed to a nearby Dodge dealership. He took a Durango for a test drive—right back to the Ford lot, parking next to the Explorer he'd been looking at moments earlier. The salesman dashed out of the showroom.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-089.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms are prime real estate for such View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Luca, whose past research has focused on platform design. For example, Luca and his colleagues reached out to online rating app Yelp several weeks ago to explore ways the company might help small businesses dealing with the crisis. Among... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
adopted a no-telecommuting policy a month after Yahoo! did, and male CEO Hubert Joly faced significantly less media coverage for the move. Sheppard presented findings from several experiments exploring the perception that women are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
passionate about something, To do it, they first create a culture designed to attract them, then give them the latitude to explore their creative ideas. These creatives come from all kinds of backgrounds, especially liberal arts and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing To Take Chances In a chapter devoted to how executives can create the ability to innovate in their group, the authors explore how Pixar's Brandeau,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
Moss and his colleagues propose that rather than looking at the effects of inequality mainly on the macro level, researchers should also look at the micro level, exploring how rising inequality might affect the individual decisions people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
what not to do? Harvard Business School professor Joshua D. Margolis draws a parallel to stage directions in a high-school play. "If you're always told when to enter, you might skip over the one time you're told to exit," he says. Margolis and fellow HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
In the six-year history of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, some types of articles have always been popular with our readers. Want to generate a lot of reader buzz? Then write about negotiation strategy, managing IT, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
what's wrong and how to fix it. Ann Cullen: How did you come to write this book with Adam B. Jaffe? What sparked your interest in this research? Josh Lerner: Adam and I have done research, together and separately, over the past decade on issues related to patent... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
factors—such as ambiguity or risk— in a self-serving manner. This paper considers an environment where the ask is not avoided, and factors that may be viewed self-servingly are neither introduced nor highlighted. Instead, this paper View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8
2009 Abstract This chapter explores issues of how Chinese railroads improved social mobility and standards of living along major trunk lines, and how foreign investment shaped the integration of the Chinese railroad network from the early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace