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  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409044 Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-023 Josef Felder, CEO of Zurich Airport, faces several crises as he tries to transform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting have had a substantial impact on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Real Estate Harvard Business School Note 208-041 Demonstrates the accelerating impact of leverage on returns under differing scenarios of property performance. The performance scenarios represent two points in time: the inception of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced medical technology,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

the products of tomorrow's transformative companies will have their greatest impact not in the material world but on the most basic elements of the human experience of life—health, physical well-being, and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

designing service interactions so that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across three studies, we find that revealing the “submerged state” through operational transparency impacts citizens’ attitudes and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

relevant for social networking sites and large advertisers. Key concepts include: There is a significant and positive impact of friends' purchases on the purchase probability of a user. However, there are significant differences across... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

impact on the link between diversity and bottom-line performance. As expected, minorities' negative assessments of their team's learning environment precipitate a negative relationship between diversity and performance, irrespective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’ performance pressure and, therefore, leads... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

that as the same customers gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in accounting standards affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse of their field by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings and questions of interest to the broader... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

Business School marketing professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan in his new book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy. The auto industry, he says, is a stark example of why go-to-market strategies need high-level attention and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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