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- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
stress-testing [people] to ensure readiness, to ensure you’ve got the capability of responding,” he explains. “There’s a discipline in the military that is sometimes lacking in commercial organizations, and [leaders] can get themselves in trouble as a result.” Simons... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
often need organizational change that the retailer is reluctant to make. Implementing analytic skills might require collaboration across multiple functions. Analytics are simply not "fun" for many people. Q: How can managers... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
night while sheltering at home: A French Village. Its 72 episodes across 7 seasons (one for each year between 1940-1946) tell a story of collaboration and resistance under the WWII Vichy government. It has more than a dozen principal... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
other team members will reinforce this shift by inquiring less as well. Thus it takes a stronger reinforcement of a team culture of contribution, challenge, learning, and egalitarianism to both reverse and fortify positive processes. A... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
citizens, and corporations to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper explores the conditions under which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
The Cost of Friendship By: Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
his earlier ventures, he had de facto operated as a solo entrepreneur, so any kind of collaborative decision making was not even an option. In the early days of Tweezerman, things started out the same. But with the evolving success of the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
to adapt based on industry changes, as well as on team strengths and weaknesses; they get the most by leveraging competitive resources, while communicating and collaborating effectively with key organizational stakeholders; they outsource... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
by forming collaborative agreements with John Maynard Keynes, Lucien March, Corrado Gini, and other prominent economists of the time. Through these contacts, the Harvard method influenced the evolution of forecasting techniques in several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
the role of government regulators, particularly the FDIC, during times of crisis. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910006-PDF-ENG Collaborating to Improve Richard Bohmer and Ingrid M. NembhardHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Science When Novel Rituals Impact Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology By: Hobson, N., F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Inzlicht Abstract—Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
and has real investment implications: approximately 75% of the debt issuance funds increased capital expenditures and cash acquisitions. In the cross section, misvaluation affects financially constrained firms the most, supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
capitalism to another is a normal historical process.—Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin Management's inward focus allowed it to succeed beyond anyone's dreams. But that success further insulated managers from the society they were supposed to serve. The elite hierarchy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
global cooperation, and promote cultural contact and awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne