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  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

firms that are financially constrained, using three novel tests: an exogenous increase in a firm's demand for credit, exogenous variation in the supply of bank loans, and the tendency for firms to pay out the proceeds of equity issues to their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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downsides, including the risk of burnout—ensuring that employees aren’t working too much, and that even in a performance-driven culture that emphasizes hard work, they maintain time for activities that will ensure a healthy personal and... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders of social ventures incorporate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

("administrative" functions, e.g., finance / law / HR). We argue that this distinction is driven by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and representations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

bearers of bad news as unlikeable stems in part from their desire to make sense of chance processes. Consistent with this account, receiving bad news activates the desire to sense-make (Study 3A), and in turn, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long-term oriented entrepreneur (and involving an admittedly extreme problem of succession), is more typical than atypical around the world. Even some of the most famous names in European business still have founders or families involved. The widely dispersed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

recognition task, Experiment 2 further demonstrates that exposure to luxury is likely to activate self-interest but not necessarily the tendency to harm others. Implications of these findings were discussed. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect operates in part through a stronger sorting of land-intensive industries from nodal districts to non-nodal districts located on the GQ network. The GQ upgrades further helped spread economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

delay decisions leads the participants to sometimes act against their short-run interests. Two classes of activity of this type emerge, which we refer to as focusing and pinning. We also explore how strategic delay alters the benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Greylock

1969 (After active duty, rose to rank of Lt. Colonel in Reserves) "No matter what business you're in, there is nothing more important than integrity and the reputation of your company. The post-bubble economy notwithstanding, there is... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

firms to activate their conventional resources. We conceptualize reputation as consisting of prominence, perceived quality, and resilience and develop a process model that illustrates the mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

expenditures? Expectations for business leadership will be greater than ever. For example, real estate developers will be expected to not just comply with building codes but actively contribute to crafting higher standards. Bankers will... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

actively enhance the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity by covertly reactivating the creativity task during sleep. Individuals' creative performance was compared after three different conditions: sleep-with-conditioned-odor;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities Authors:Sebastian Raisch and Michael L. Tushman Abstract This paper explores the shifting nature of differentiation and integration in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne