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- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
allow us to examine how teams experience status disagreement over time, and client ratings demonstrate how coordination and conflict ultimately affect team performance with clients. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been attracted by the relatively high... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled quite happily into my own female... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
products that generate greater disagreement among the employees are likely to have less-accurate forecasts. Get the product testing right. An impressive 78 % of the retailers in our study test new products in a few stores before the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
shielded them from responsibility. The lack of performance standards related directly to the organization's inability to deal with conflict. Many managers could not abide open conflict in meetings. Disagreements over issues were... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
race tracks, interactive tombstones, and stride-changing running shoes. These four products form the basis to assess the drivers of new product adoption. In particular, one of the critical tasks in marketing new innovations is predicting demand and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike self-assessment) offers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
corporate tax code? Because the IRS wanted loopholes? No, because businesses pleaded for loopholes that benefited them. MP: And legislators saw a great way to get campaign contributions. Q: What reaction have you heard from the business community? MP: Very little View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild Authors:Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese firms the most diversified in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details