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  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed techniques for entering waves... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

University. CIBER sponsored the study, which will be released on April 16th. Among the preliminary findings is that most companies are not deterred by security or intellectual property concerns when considering outsourcing moves to Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Leaning In to Gender Equity

positions of corporate power. Male partners must step up to relieve women of the full burden of raising children and keeping house. "Yes, someone needs to remember what goes into the lunch box, but it does not have to be Mom," she writes. Besides writing the book,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 27 Aug 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

revitalizing a listless national space program. (Published in 2016). Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Building Trust Legal and social institutions that support entrepreneurs often aren't well established in developing countries. A new book explains how businesses can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-016.pdf Channels of Influence Authors:Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm's location, we can predict,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

campaigns are successful, what would be the effect on the already struggling American economy? A: Never before have global concerns about American foreign policy so threatened to change consumer behavior. We are not speaking here of the frivolous grandstanding... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

contribution to the team. However, when cognition-based trust is high, people start to believe that they can rely on their teammates to get work done, and actually stop working as hard. By differentiating these two types of trust, we can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Solution:Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, written with co-author Michael E. Raynor, looks at the keys to creating new-growth companies that can sustain their competitive advantages. It is scheduled to be released in the fall by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 24

cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising association may be accounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

paid forward in kind, greed was paid forward more than generosity. This asymmetry was driven by negative affect, such that a positive affect intervention disrupted the tendency to pay greed forward. Implications for models of generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000 passengers. The airline recovered—and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
  • 19 Dec 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

When a new year rolls around, many of us ponder resolutions to improve our work habits. Maybe we wish to behave a little better with colleagues, become more organized, or actually take breaks during the day. But can we really change our own ingrained behavior? The good... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard Business School on what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 09 Aug 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

Source: rawpixel Hit a wall trying to increase your productivity? Recent research by Harvard Business School professors might help. The following articles address some basic questions: Should we deal with easy tasks first? Do employees know better than management about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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