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  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

  Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

technical understanding of how race and racism have shaped the most pressing problems of our time. How effective was the course? Morgan: The course crucially broadened the perspectives of students who were new to considering how dynamics... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

understanding of their distant colleagues, while reflected knowledge promoted feelings of being understood. We discuss implications of reflected knowledge to theories of trust and interpersonal dynamics in globally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

shown over the last few months. Following is a quick overview of each committee’s work. The Clubs Committee, chaired by Kathleen Jackson (MBA ’86), focused on two areas: creating a system for encouraging and tracking faculty travel to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

by so many financial and regulatory systems that can be invisible or unexpected. If we can inspire more small businesses to stand up, identify the obstacles ahead of them, and work together to change them, then I think we could experience... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

nation, Ray plans to advance his research how businesses and other organizations respond to racial disparities, focusing on individual and systemic responses. His work bridges social science with practical recommendations for designing... View Details
  • 03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - HBS Online

Effective Leader 04 NOV 2024 | The Parlor Room Harvard Business School Professor Anthony Mayo joins host Chris Linnane to explore what distinguishes good leaders from great ones, emphasizing how emotional intelligence enables leaders to excel in View Details
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

someone who fits these criteria, boards may find that many talented CIOs and CTOs drop off the list of potential IT committee members.) The IT expert must have not only a solid grounding in the firm's overall business needs but also a holistic view of the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading decisions.   Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on software to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

between modularity and evolution has had limited success. Three major challenges persist: first, it is difficult to measure modularity in a robust and repeatable fashion; second, modularity is a property of individual components, not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

determine which unique capabilities your company values the most. K-12 On the Brink: Why America’s Education System Fails to Improve, and Only Business Leadership Can Fix It by Tom Coyne (MBA 1984) Independently published Ask yourself... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

module devoted to utilizing customer-operators to improve operations (HBS No. 608-135). Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608126 Equity Derivatives Harvard Business School Note 208-117 The goal of these simulations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries, U.S. Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

again, no one apologizes for this-is that patients can't choose their caregivers. They will get a Mayo Clinic diagnosis, and they will get it quickly, but it may not be a diagnosis from a specific, renowned doctor X. The system has been... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service