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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of wage depreciation from job contestability due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53371 What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management By: Soltes, Eugene F., Suraj Srinivasan, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
promoted a rule-based, "managed" globalization. This contest over the character of globalization continues today. Publisher's site: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ADBCAP.html Career Concerns and Mandated Disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for their role in Chilean economic success over the last three decades, in Argentina their role has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
broadcast them inside and outside. Another study looks at the interaction between intellectual property constraints and collaboration constraints. MathWorks, which makes MATLAB software, has been running a fun "wiki-like" programming View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data services. T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major carriers, lacked the scale of its competitors and risked falling... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount, Goldstein earns a seat on the board of directors. Now he and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Jeopardy! contestants to compete against Watson, its “brain” the compendium of 100 algorithms working in parallel against 200 million pages of text in 500 gigabytes of data. When it finally played master Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
decision, political and social unrest breaks out in Kenya following a highly contested presidential election. Acumen Fund must now also consider the political risks of investing. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
four non-mutually-exclusive types: constitutive norms; social purposes; relational comparisons with other social categories; and cognitive models. Contestation refers to the degree of agreement within a group over the content of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
and contested each year over two weeks in late June and early July, Wimbledon, in many ways, had changed little over the years. Its showcase venue—the 15,000 seat “Centre Court,” complete with a “Royal Box”—was built in 1926. Slazenger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
family life, connection to others, and faithfulness to yourself seem doomed to vie in a terminal contest for your exclusive attention. It's easy to feel stupid when you compare yourself to the celebrity successes, easy to feel inadequate... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Complete Table of Contents June 2011 The House that Howard Built Howard Stevenson and entrepreneurship at HBS The Best-Laid Plans Veterans of the HBS Business Plan Contest share their war stories about the roller-coaster ride of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Industry Author:Arthur Daemmrich Abstract Fiercely contested before, during, and since its passage, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will restructure the U.S. healthcare market if fully implemented in coming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Describes the rationale for participation by solvers in innovation contests and the benefits that accrue to firms. Raises the issue if a community can be shifted to collaboration when competition was the basis of prior interaction.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace