Filter Results:
(680)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,397)
- People (4)
- News (739)
- Research (680)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (43)
- Faculty Publications (252)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,397)
- People (4)
- News (739)
- Research (680)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (43)
- Faculty Publications (252)
Sort by
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-018 Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies Authors:Erin M.Reid, Michael W. Toffel Abstract The challenges View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly. The case helps View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a national network dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
the risks associated with it. The aim of the meeting was to outline four scenarios for the future that could help managers assess what key success factors and actions were required for coping with the challenges presented by each scenario... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
associate professor at the Fuqua School and faculty director of Duke University's Corporate Sustainability Initiative. They received essential technical expertise from student programmers who were fascinated... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Years ago, when I was a student in New York (and like many students, perpetually broke), I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for entertainment. The museum had a policy that visitors could pay whatever they wanted, so for as... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
passion for his work, his deep attachment to both rigor and relevance, were our inspiration," said Associate Professor Julie Battilana, who organized the conference with colleagues Shon R. Hiatt, Mukti Khaire, and Christopher... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
presidential election. These results highlight the trade-offs associated with mobilizing voters in recently established democracies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50950 Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
emphases, including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. The Nature of Human Creativity brings together an incredible diversity of viewpoints, helping View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
and harness the wisdom of crowds. Most organizations, however, don't find it easy or natural to use these new tools initially. And executives see many possible pitfalls associated with them. Enterprise 2.0 explores these concerns and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
other party and how that party viewed them. Wolfe is a research associate at Princeton, while McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In her office at Baker Library, McGinn discussed the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
for society. Students and researchers in organizational behavior, management, positive psychology, leadership, and corporate responsibility will find this book of interest. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining quality and spurring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
approaches on the subject in terms of longitudinal and geographical scope. We suggest that the straightforward association of the general environmental settings of market immaturities and institutional voids with the existence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne