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- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
best for spec Luo collected her initial data from Done Deal Pro, a database that tracks transactions of movie ideas in Hollywood, including sales of both nascent ideas and fully formed scripts—the vast... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
influence facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
level data set of 29 countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. August 2013 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members' prior experience working with one another—helps teams to better manage challenges created by task changes and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appear to focus more on their work than on alternate outdoor activities. We investigate the proposed relationship between worse weather and higher productivity through four studies: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
in large and small groups. They wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
replaced financial advisors with robo-advisors, which use big data and algorithms to determine the best places to put clients’ money—and appeal to a whole new generation of investors. Technology replaces the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation would actually increase innovation since it would tend to increase transparency in this field, and provide potential researchers with the data they need. Regulation could also increase access to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate survival in ways that persist over time. Building on research in strategy and business history, we thus shed light on an underappreciated strategic construct (reputation) in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
Why do so many wanna-be entrepreneurs like Scott Rozic, founder and CEO of XMarkstheSpot, head for Silicon Valley? The reason may seem as obvious as why Willie Sutton robbed banks—because that's where the money is. But it's really more... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
organization's operations and supply chain and a product or service. Illustrates concepts with examples of calculating the carbon footprint of an organization (Harvard Business School) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Working PapersRecognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making Authors:Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien Abstract In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
terms. The technical problem is that any two applications are virtually guaranteed to contain dissimilar data and execute dissimilar business processes. One might store dates as DD/MM/YYYY View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
prepared to make a snap judgment; collecting and analyzing the data across two firms took nearly a year. But by offering them my initial observations about team behaviors and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
struggling. A new superintendent who is well-known and respected in education reform circles arrived this [past] school year. He asked Sarah and Matt to expand their strategy to assist him in building the... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third—after WorldCom and Enron—among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is contemplating several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace