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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms. They tie into compensation and performance evaluation systems, so for a CEO to say, "I didn't know," I think is quite... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African nations, as in the United States, a key role of government is the funding, construction, and maintenance of the public infrastructure that benefits everyone. This obviously is not being accomplished... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
differences between putting for par and birdie and performance under pressure. Read the paper: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol7/iss1/5/ Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
to investigate the psychological consequences and performance benefits of connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work. In a longitudinal field experiment of fruit harvesters, we find that though beneficiary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to lose money or power should the status quo be overturned." What kind of money and power stands to be lost, and by whom? How did we get to this homogenized pricing of the present insurance system in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
When most people think of innovation, they envision developed-world companies such as the U.S.A.'s IBM, Japan's Sony, South Korea's Samsung, Finland's Nokia, or Switzerland's Novartis, technology leaders that have stayed at the cutting edge of dynamic industries such... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
forthcoming Abstract Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
influence key decisions in the founding process. It is argued that the same biases that provide early benefits can later prove to be a weakness for the startup, and that founders must learn to identify their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
probably represents about 2 percent of all companies—and these are way ahead of the curve. The idea was to get a glimpse at the most aggressive, leading-edge uses of technology and to get the longest experience that I could in some of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Thus NGO involvement is essential to monitor and provide assurance that the poor are benefiting from the public-private partnership. NGOs, in spite of their own legitimacy problems, have become the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
"This paper has potential in academics and for the world of practice because it has insights that could be implemented by organizations tomorrow if they so choose." The researchers encourage businesses to consider the View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- July 2008
- Teaching Note
Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807073]. View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
that may bias our decisions, and we should proactively change the system so that we naturally make better decisions.” Related Reading: Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits Food... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
that accounting research would benefit from a greater focus on the study of causal mechanisms (or causal pathways), increased emphasis on structural modeling of the phenomena of interest, and more in-depth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2000
- Case
To Trim or Not to Trim: That Is the Question
By: Srikant M. Datar
Should Novartis drop 20% of its global pharmaceutical product brands that account for only 3% of its pharmaceutical revenues? View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Cost vs Benefits; Business Strategy; Investment Return; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry
Datar, Srikant M. "To Trim or Not to Trim: That Is the Question." Harvard Business School Case 100-105, May 2000.
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the integration of media markets to promote "localism." To find the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace