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- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Course Authors:Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Communications of the Association for Information Systems 24, no. 1 (2009) Abstract We report on the design and implementation of an unusual course in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
educators to deliver a high-impact transformative leadership course creating leaders ready to meet the global demands of the 21st century. Workshop participants included 41 scholars and administrators from North America and Europe from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
time, those patriarchal systems tend to diminish initiative and entrepreneurship, discouraging individuals to take different stands, go out and do different businesses or take different paths. It is a curious feature of human psychology... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
toward sharks. Given that nature documentaries are often regarded as objective and authoritative sources of information, it is critical that documentary filmmakers and viewers are aware of how the soundtrack can affect the interpretation of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the labyrinth system that provided an estimated 14 million rides a day.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
residual 48%. The factors most strongly correlated with state fixed effects are the availability of Election Day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, as well as electoral competitiveness. Education is the only variable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
in County Business Patterns (CBP). An algorithm using contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting for lagged CBP data, in a testing sample not used to generate the algorithm. The algorithm is more accurate for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
values and tried many times to formulate the distinctive characteristics of the various services." In essence, the "Navy spokesmen attempted to distinguish between the Army as a 'manpower' organization and the Navy as a finely adjusted View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
psychologists describe groundbreaking research from disparate work settings, and cross-cultural psychologists reveal the variety of ways that envy can emerge as a function of cultures as wide-ranging as the Japanese school system to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed to find a performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
stickiness and foster growth. However, as the company tried to push the cross-selling agenda across its various divisions, it faced myriad issues. It needed to educate its divisional sales staff about the services provided by divisions... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of helping redefine the purpose of secondary education might be too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
MaterialsLeaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case 311-032 Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
on. It's noteworthy that he was educated at public universities. There was no tuition at CCNY, City College of New York. Q: And he was penniless when he came. A: He came here with nothing but the shirt on his back. He literally crawled... View Details