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  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms moving large assembly operations back to the U.S. have faced, along with recommendations for more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

her latest book. An authority on business history as well as branding, consumer behavior, and business strategy, Koehn cut her historical teeth on understanding and interpreting the economic and social contexts for businesses. In Brand... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Psychology Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

to deliver high-quality patient care. The orthopaedic surgeon must collaborate in a new way with fellow health-care professionals, providing care by following teaming protocols. Publisher's link: http://jbjs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/96/21/e184 February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

complete. The local was never entirely subsumed by the global. Convergence and homogenization were stronger in aspirations than in preferences for particular products and scents, which remained more persistently local despite the spread... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

local economic development. The reserve was in a region in the northeastern part of the country, not far from Mozambique, that sorely called out for progress in both these dimensions. The Sabi Sand Game reserve (within which Londolozi was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and affect welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Author:Alnoor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

preferences across issues, often with little introductory discussion. Procedural acts are scarce. The parties go straight to the issues and discuss all of them simultaneously from the onset of the interaction. Building-a-relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

or it’s a bad air-quality day and my child really shouldn’t be outdoors, I’m going to keep them home from school. As a normal working adult, I don’t have money to hire a service, so I’m going to miss a day of work. Fifty percent of women who have left the workforce and... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

type of fashion and adopt the next in order to differentiate themselves from the masses. 'I read Playboy for the articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Download the PDF. We want others to find us good, fair,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

new initiatives. Light became Acting Dean in August 2005 upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean in April 2006. The School’s 2008 Centennial celebration provided a high point of Light’s five-year tenure; the global economic crisis... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still an industry, with economic... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

businesses is to generate economic returns, so it makes sense that some motives would tend toward the utilitarian, coexisting with altruistic motivations of business leaders and manifesting themselves in the collaborative undertakings.... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Science The Belief in a Favorable Future By: Rogers, Todd, Don A. Moore, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—People believe that future others’ preferences and beliefs will change to align with their own. People holding a particular view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

  Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

capital processes to create value for its peripheral technologies. If there were promising technologies within Xerox that were not being utilized in Xerox's businesses, XTV provided a new path for them to enter the market. If that technology subsequently created... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Around the World

and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne