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  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To understand better how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

won't be able to do this job. Q: What was the toughest part of the job? A: It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest situations are dealing... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
  • 24 Sep 2001
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How To Be an Angel Investor

seminars, learning an industry by working in it; these are all ways to develop expertise that will promote your success in investing. But in both entrepreneurship and angel investing, there is nothing like doing it. Nothing.   The... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

Hong Abstract—When to sell a novel idea is a difficult decision for many innovators. Selling early has financial benefits. But a later-stage sale of a more fully developed idea may attract greater buyer interest and allow the innovator to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

table? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207122 Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture Harvard Business School Case 406-009 Charles "Ed" Haldeman Jr. is promoted CEO of Putnam... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control. This need not be so. This article... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

that the appropriate leadership style did depend upon the nature of the task, specifically how certain or uncertain it was. However Vroom and Yetton defined the task as decision making, while the others were not so specific about the type... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
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The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

institutions, added Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (HBS MBA '99). A director of the Fate Foundation Nigeria and Fate Foundation U.S.A., two nonprofits that try to promote entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Nwuneli said, "A company can, instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

David E. Bell and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 510-013 CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

development of broader firm capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-019.pdf How Can Decision Making Be Improved? (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract text Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony disrupted creativity, ambient cultural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jun 2019
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Are You a Digital Manager?

working, and making decisions together if they were to fully embrace the rich diversity of culture, expertise, and experience the team represented. As one manager in a global company put it, “Social media will never replace the dinner... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

urbanization occurring in the informal sector suggests that urbanization policies that contain inclusionary approaches may be more successful in promoting local development and managing its strains than those focused only on the formal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more cost effective, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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