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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
business was performing exceptionally well, Microsoft's leadership understood that cloud-based solutions would become more prevalent in the future. As the newly appointed president of STB, Satya Nadella had to find a balance between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
can be a competitor, but it can also be a collaborator” If anything, says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales S. Teixeira, that number understates the prevalence of media multitasking. "That 40 percent figure is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
prevalent for large diversified companies that operate in many different businesses. Financial analysts and investors may have an especially difficult time understanding what's going on in these companies, or may lack the industry... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50192 Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850 By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
interaction. They spend more time internally, specifically in pre-planned meetings that have more participants from different functions. The complementarity between span of control and the team model of interaction is more prevalent in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
the arts are given more scrutiny. Before the revolution, you might aspire to a government post or a job with a multinational, observes Nada Shousha, a senior advisor at the IFC and EAEF vice chairwoman. After, the more prevalent mindset... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of a “spray and pray" investment approach—where investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but these are also good times to be shipping physical cargo the way it was done when America first began to industrialize. Indeed, says Ward, it’s back to the future: The country is in the midst of a “rail renaissance.” One heartening example — considering the View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
then collapsed suddenly in 1983. It was reborn at the end of the 1980s under Nintento's leadership, which was then challenged for a few years by Sega, only to be conquered by Sony's original PlayStation. And along the way, some companies such as 3DO had tried... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
ability to think about more than one thing at a time," says Hodgson, who held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Nextera Interactive before coming to HBS. "There's a balancing act involved between the bottom line and the social mission which isn't as View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger generations that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
chains had changed significantly. While a higher proportion of Americans exercised on any given day, the majority still did not, and the average number of hours exercised had remained essentially flat. Meanwhile, the prevalence of people... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
challenge: There was no guarantee that the disease would still be prevalent by the time a vaccine became available. This had been the case with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a dangerous coronavirus identified in the Guangdong... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
remember. His curiosity about the world and his intense pursuit of answers is so deeply ingrained Vescovo jokes that the impulse is in his genes. (Indeed, science has recently discovered several gene variants that seem more prevalent... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
admissions, and, as a result, yield prevalence estimates that are lower than direct questioning (Studies 1–4, 5A, & 6), less accurate than direct questioning (Studies 1, 3, 4B, & 5A), and even nonsensical (i.e., negative, Studies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
in West Africa, 1950-1970 Author:Stephanie Decker Periodical:Business History Review 81 (spring 2007): 59-86 Abstract Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne