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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
the 1960s and forward through the early 1990s so he is able examine the process of economic development of these four economies and their relationships with FDI. Huang is especially interested in FDI that went into labor-intensive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Abstract Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which tools will work in a given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
close association between the characteristics of actors’ environment and the processes of network formation among actors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50445 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
others. This chapter reviews research on how these biases manifest themselves in the core processes of organizations—that is, how people are hired, compensated, developed, and evaluated—all of which are aspects of organizational life that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
managerial decision making. Six facets of institutional logic-a common purpose, a long-term focus, emotional engagement, partnering with the public, innovation, and self-organization-radically alter leadership and corporate behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
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
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
pursue an MBA, the answer was, "No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us." A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening process top schools use to pick students, and a few... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
an accessible superpower for business—and he is racing tech’s biggest names to make a long-promised future a reality. Complete Table of Contents March 2024 The War Within How three HBS alumni are helping Ukrainians process their... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
studio and uplink center. Not bad for a kid who received a “low pass” in Production and Operations Management and thought he could get away with not having to buy a pocket calculator to do the math for Managerial Economics. Life throws a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios