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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
tenure on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; while contributions to the Democratic Party are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
launch his own network of schools because he believed typical elementary education was not preparing students adequately for the future. Instead, Ventilla created "microschools," each with 80 to 150 K-8 students, with a focus on... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
abundant supply of low-cost labor in China. Highlights the unique benefits and challenges created by BYD's operations strategy and asks students to determine whether the capabilities developed by the company in battery manufacturing can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
being transformed by technological innovations and new student achievement standards. This case chronicles how CEO Rob Waldron and his team bring Curriculum Associates (CA), a traditional supplemental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
staff and given assignments at Merck's research facilities. Through its network of associated colleges, UNCF affords Merck access to bright minority students with an interest in science, and these View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
willingness to invest, commit, work hard, persist and persevere, making confidence a highly desirable trait. There are four levels of confidence, with each level building on the prior one: Self-confidence: This is what most people View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
Leadership: Advancing the Field By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
day." Greg Lipstein, an MBA student at HBS who is also co-founder of DrivenData, agreed during a summit session called "Innovating With the Crowd" that it's important to maintain a healthy dialogue with the community to build credibility... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
Travel Date: May 2006 Location Visited: Cairo Purpose: Research on three global companies with Egyptian operations. Report: Sean Silverthorne: What was the nature of your visit? Rosabeth Moss Kanter: I traveled to Cairo in May 2006 with my research View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
energy intensive. This effect is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management practices is associated with a 17.4% reduction in energy intensity. Better managed firms are also significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
talented workers of the world? What do you think? Original Column The talented people of this planet “are the world’s most precious resource,” writes William Kerr in a recent book. They are highly mobile, benefit from association with... View Details