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- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
and case-method teaching, but also for his efforts, as the Robert Walmsley University Professor, to enhance the quality of discussion teaching throughout Harvard. He served at various times as a visiting faculty member at IMEDE (an View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
whether these relationships differed by practice size. Huckman and Adler-Milstein researched monthly EHR task-log data between 2006 and 2009 from more than 40 primary care and internal medicine practices throughout the United States.... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
official International Olympic Committee (IOC) worldwide sponsors are said to pay $90 to $100 million each for the right to use the rings globally in their marketing efforts. These companies typically spend large additional amounts on... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
financing institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). We find that developing countries serving on the Board of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
literature that suggests firms reduce marketing expenditures in order to boost reported earnings, we find that soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of all marketing promotions (price discounts, feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
to 67.5% of standard. Customers who observed employees engaged in labor perceived greater effort, appreciated that effort, and valued the service more. Employees who observed customers felt more appreciated and, in turn, were more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
political road to fiscal crisis; the economics of that crisis and efforts to recover from it; the danger the crisis posed to the euro; cooperation and conflict among European states, the European Central Bank, and the International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
are growing more tenuous each year. Big Apple Circus is on the brink and Will Weiss must determine if there is a way forward. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-021 THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (SANY), SANY Group's major subsidiary, engaged in the construction equipment business and was number six on International Construction's 2012 Yellow Table, a ranking of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
enhanced stakeholder engagement through CSR, and reduced informational asymmetries, due to increased transparency through non-financial reporting. Using a large cross-section of firms, we show that firms with better CSR performance face... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
friends’ purchasing. Third, they looked at whether liking affects things other than purchasing (for example, whether it can persuade people to engage in healthful behaviors). And fourth, they tested whether boosting likes by paying to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase profits by investing abroad. A new study of the grocery retail industry reveals that with a few exceptions globalization's benefits have not accrued to retailers. Local retailers dominate most countries, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way that makes this sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further results of this paper provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne