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- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
doubles debt forgiveness, contagion causes the default rate to increase by 10.9% on average. Using an exogenous shock to the lender's forgiveness policy, I further show that as the lender learns about the...
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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
into outdoor gear. He builds up a worldwide supply chain by recruiting people who want to gamble that there is a customer need not being met by polyester. NB: For prospective entrepreneurs, what are the key...
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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
we have people that are willing to stand up to him and do the right thing by their companies. I'm thinking somebody like Mary Barra at General Motors, where they've said you can't have a supply chain that...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
those voices and is going off in his own way. And I think Facebook grew too fast. A little bit like Frankenstein's monster grew out of control I think he feels trapped, but I don't View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
the federal level. Would government be better served by having more business leaders in office? A: I don't think that a business school professor can offer unbiased advice on who should run government....
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Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business...
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
spurned because he is so harsh and demanding. He is in turn betrayed by his closest ally (John Sculley), but ultimately the clarity of his vision and charisma triumph, and he transforms the world. The transformation in communications he...
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- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered What are the keys to monetizing IP? How should I think about file-sharing...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
from the very earliest proposals made by Spain in 1529, through an abortive French attempt in the 19th century, to the construction, opening, and operation of the Canal by the U.S., and finally the turning...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
managers gain influence in their organizations to become strategic decision makers. Key concepts include: Many organizations have functional experts who have deep knowledge but lack influence. They can influence high-level strategic View Details
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Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
family and business. And when buyouts do happen, they usually come late. "Buyouts of family owners rarely happen—even when it is clearly a good option" The Case Of Market Basket Market Basket, a highly respected supermarket family business in New England,...
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Retail
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
individuals to change their way of thinking about themselves and their role in the world. There is a six-phase plan for recognizing and overcoming impasse, starting with feeling stuck and ending with finally taking action. Each phase has...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
thinkers formed an impression unbiased by the stereotype, suggesting a bottom-up strategy, whereas conscious thinkers relied on the stereotype, suggesting a top-down strategy. That is, when thinking...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
book excerpt The Swing Of Things From Chapter 6, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World By Michael Wheeler Paying heed is one aspect of improvising. Comping is another. Being provocative is a third. When...
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Re: Michael A. Wheeler