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- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in weighing alternatives. Prior research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
financial chicanery or unethical dealings. “Often what you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm, but that can make people so loyal that when they see something wrong they don’t bring it up” That dichotomy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. IBM's diversity task forces benefited from all four. Demonstrate Leadership Support It's become a cliché to say that leadership matters, but the issue... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of the top 25 patenting U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
implications are discussed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51617 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
environment? A: The sociological literature contains a number of wonderful ethnographies—vivid descriptive accounts—of men doing dangerous work in such settings as coal mines, fire departments, and the military. Invulnerability looms large in View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and job types, with no increase in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is set very wide so that they... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the likelihood that at least one competitor will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
teaching the second-year MBA courses on investment management and capital markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
giving them all the same data and preparation materials in negotiating the sale of a piece of property. Eyes are opened when Mohan shares the results and the students see how well they fared price-wise compared to others. "It opens... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a longitudinal field study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
profusion of diverse topics into a single work, all in service to an untenable thesis. Schumpeter had grown up reading ponderous German treatises containing sentences hundreds of words long, and his... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
"dynamic trajectories" perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and, additionally, we document... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Everyone talks about how quickly business changes, yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. We take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are still regularly taught in MBA classes, and rank among... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
welfare services leads to an increase in the formation of new companies. (The paper cites a related example: author J. K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter novel while receiving welfare benefits in the United Kingdom.)... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
health care is about life, quality of life, and death. Start trying to manage, control and put a dollar figure on that and you will instantly run into walls at all levels of society." On the other hand, David Giammittorio described... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
any individual company, it is often better, in the short or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on... View Details