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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

effectively within the newly merged entities. Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Making Software: Toward a Contingency Theory of the Determinants of Development Process Design Authors:Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin Periodical:Information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams of young Albert Einstein at... View Details
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he should attend a meeting that he was not invited to, where more senior consultants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

first present data suggesting that this belief has become a “hegemonic narrative”—a pervasive, status-quo-preserving story that is uncontested, even in the face of countervailing evidence. We then take a systems View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

influential financial expert. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=11-068.pdf Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection as a Control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

management systems and practices that might work well in one country but can be disastrous in another. Q: What are some of the most important similarities and differences you found in comparing British and Dutch business history? How do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

Abstract Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne