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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally associated with a hospital. The... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
key components for taking care of yourself after performing a necessary evil.” It is important to note, however, that we did not gather data about outcomes in this study, so we cannot conclude that any particular method of handling the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
multiple identities as a result. The outcomes of relational pluralism can include greater flexibility in building network ties, more stable exchange relationships, and the ability to adopt tailored innovations. We develop a typology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
differences in strategic orientation choices and their performance outcomes for American and Japanese entrepreneurial firms, focusing on founders' achievement motivation as a key personal disposition. Design/methodology/approach: A survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
priority to a control-motivated "King" founder are often lower priority to a wealth-motivated "Rich" founder and vice versa. Thus, this note identifies the most common terms that differ in their importance to different types of founders and provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
These results provide some of the first field-based evidence on the potential for a firm's balanced scorecard to provide useful information for detecting problems in its strategy. February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Are Incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411032-PDF-ENG Erik Peterson at Biometra (C) John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Supplement 411-033 Describes the outcome of Erik Peterson's meetings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
matching candidates are attractive by reducing the competition among agents on the same side of the market. An agent who sees fewer candidates knows that these candidates also see fewer potential matches, and so are more likely to accept... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
on his favorite music. It was just this seventies disco hit, everybody breaks out dancing. It was such a profound experience of seeing the excitement and the potential for people having a new life, and how much fun and joy they were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visibility and visitorship. This light, open, and completely handicapped-accessible facility attracts tourists from around the world, and its signature fish-eye spiral staircase is a work of art itself. The Outcome of Income As leisure... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
identify the conditions under which the well-being benefits of prosociality are most likely to emerge. Finally, we briefly highlight several levers that can be used to increase prosocial behavior, thereby potentially increasing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
country can reap the benefits of these efforts. Therefore, additional economic outcomes that enhance France’s competitiveness are also considered. The results show that within France, the regulation led to a 0.6%–5.4% yearly increase in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outcome can be replicated by a licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of the above regimes can reach first or second best. Finally, we consider patents of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was always constrained, especially by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
raised potential challenges to the dominance of leading firms. Our research tells a fascinating story of an industry that has proved remarkably resilient in resolving economic and regulatory challenges. It provides practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for Research on Education... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes By: McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo Abstract—Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Lee, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, contained a number of provisions with potential to directly or indirectly affect cancer care. Value for patients was widely discussed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne