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  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept of Corporate Strategy, Irwin: Homewood), attempts to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

fields of management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

empower underrepresented groups, from founding mentorship programs for college and high school students to supporting non-profit boards focused on expanding educational outcomes for minority students. “Through a career focused on... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

likely as younger children to assign themselves the good prize by reporting winning the coin flip more than chance would dictate. Overall, the results of these experiments suggest that as children grow older they become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. Data extraction. We identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

by a (chronic or situational) productivity orientation. Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting Author:George Serafeim Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

VTID. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512029-PDF-ENG The Cleveland Clinic: Improving the Patient Experience (Abridged) Ananth Raman, Anita Tucker, and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case 611-015 Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

experience of individuals in a team (i.e., years in a given role within a team) is associated with better team performance. We examine the impact of role experience separately for team managers and team members. We find that a manager's role experience is positively... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

variance. The second is the latent components approach suggesting the importance of sensitivity to losses and diminishing sensitivity to marginal increases in payoffs. The third approach, risk acceptance, relates to the willingness to accept probable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace