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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
therapeutic development’s lost, is in translation. We try to bridge that gap by testing it in a humanized cell line, specifically the human that we’re trying to treat. And so with this cell line we build... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with regard to core standards in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives Are Eliminated during Institutionalization looks at factors that make us take information for granted, even when the information isn't accurate. For example, the common perception is that the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
across countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52239 2018 The Nature of Human Creativity Creativity and the Labor of Love By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—This book provides an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
sensitive to the solicited person’s gender, with women responding more than men. These results shed light on the factors that drive employees’ engagement in organizational tasks, beyond regular duties, and provide insights on how to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
factors will be mitigated (by) leaders who are short on ethics and morality ." Others, most of whom assumed that the technologies would successfully be applied, were less sanguine about the results, expanding on Levine's concerns.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
the job incumbent." As Phil Clark put it, "This is similar to the 'chicken or the egg' type of discussion." Don Robertson reminded us that "it is clear that many factors come into play when you start to analyze View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
pressures. Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Humanizing Victims Predicts Intergroup Helping Authors:Amy J. C. Cuddy, Mindi Rock, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
There are two myths in defining creativity. One is the genius myth—that creativity is tied to genius. To the contrary, I've found that although some people have extreme levels of talent, everyone with normal human capacities is capable of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
customers to behave differently. When we observe this happening in the field, we seek to identify what factors are driving the behavior—whether they stem from the customer or firm side of the encounter—isolate their respective effects,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this subject: that society and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an investment in a typical property (including net rental... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical capabilities, and case studies of the application of analytics in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne