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  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

the company had lost its "human touch" in the process of professionalizing and modernizing to capitalize on the fantastic market opportunities that had opened up in Spain. Some felt that the work was now too structured and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral insight encompasses both a cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

associated with billing and insurance activities at a large academic health care center that had a certified EHR system. The center enjoyed economies of scale by concentrating its bill paying functions within a single, dedicated unit. The study found that costs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

how to manage up; Cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with your manager; Communicate effectively with your boss about priorities and problems; and Negotiate win-win solutions to on-the-job challenges with your supervisor.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

for more engagement at the micro level of business enterprises. While recognizing that the context of institutions, education, and culture plays a role in explanations of wealth and poverty, the paper calls for a closer engagement with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

knowledge spillovers and capital market externalities exert a stronger impact on multinational firms while labor market pooling has a weaker effect. These findings remain robust when we examine entry decisions and explore the process of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

features. First, financiers engage in the costly but potentially profitable process of innovation: they can invent better methods for screening entrepreneurs. Second, every screening process becomes less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2006
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New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

development interests on asset management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance Unit (1986-88); as senior associate dean,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

and the environment will make the relevance of microprocess research findings to broader organizational questions easier to discern and therefore more likely to disseminate to the larger field of organizational research. We empirically assess this assertion by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809019 AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! Harvard Business School Case 609-004 The establishment and growth of AMD's Dresden, Germany manufacturing site illustrates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2003
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How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most senior manufacturing executives... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. CEO succession is a process taking many years, not an event that takes place shortly before a transition. It reflects the way a company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

Lynch. Negotiations for the acquisition had begun a few months earlier, during the disastrous week in September in which Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. Initially both Merrill and BofA viewed their agreement favorably, but in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

exercise (Negotiation Strategy Simulation)—illuminate how through a thoughtful process of probing and testing, a negotiator may determine whether the other party tends to be cooperative or competitive. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2015
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Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

Wagaroo, rather than to the previous owner. In return, Wagaroo uses the fee to help other dogs find homes and to support organizational operating costs. NEXT STEPS The Wagaroo team has expansion plans. For people who simply desire a high-touch View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 10 Aug 2011
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HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

frustrated since Richard Nixon left office in the throes of the Watergate scandal in 1974. Our so-called political leaders have just completed a grand game of chicken, and the United States is the loser. I won't dwell on the inanity of the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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