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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunity for success; and (4) perhaps most damning, the original evidence that the courts relied upon to conclude that Section 203 gave bidders a meaningful opportunity for success was seriously flawed-so flawed, in fact, that even this original evidence supports... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
examine the lobbying behavior of state governments in the development of recently issued public pension accounting standards GASB 67 and 68. Consistent with opportunistic motivations, we find that states' opposition to the liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
ivory-tower critique, agrees that HBS is different. In an interview, he noted that the School often has been criticized for the opposite problem—in essence, for being "too practical." Light also questions Henry Mintzberg's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
dead.” It might be tempting to believe that the long run is simply a series of short runs, but the reality is that immediate pressures can overwhelm the long-run view, and even cause us to take actions that are the opposite of what a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
divisiveness and elevate their stature, which will soften the opposition block. Biden and Harris have a secret weapon in the quest for unity: the idealism of young people. Let the young lead. National service programs can be used to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
opposite effects at the two extremes: it reduces the probability of very poor outcomes—because of more rigorous selection processes—while simultaneously increasing the probability of extremely successful outcomes—because of greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
to be happy on a daily basis. But the way that we achieve happiness, the way that we find the precondition of meaningfulness that let's us be happy is that we in some ways do the opposite of this. We look for the opportunities when we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
“It’s changing here enormously,” she says of France’s labor climate. “The workers elected Hollande, a Socialist, but he has done just the opposite of what he promised, which was to reinforce the rights of workers,” she says. Yet Brand... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55625 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract— In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
4). Further, although givers believe that recipients do not appreciate receiving money as much as receiving a solicited gift, recipients feel the opposite about these two gift options (Study 5). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the opposite of window... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
"educate Indians"-a suspected euphemism for bribery. Opposition political parties accused Wal-Mart of bribing the Indian government, which, on the eve of a general election, appointed a judicial commission to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward? In this article, I present evidence suggesting that while firms have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers take note. Flattening can lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
his leg. By portraying Native peoples as passive figures in the process of US expansion and associating them only with the wilderness and in opposition to “civilization,” such illustrations reinforce stereotypes and obscure the... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
optimistic about the merger of these entities with seemingly opposite company cultures. How should the two entities plan to integrate? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract Two aspects of media bias are important empirically. First, bias is persistent: it does not seem to disappear even when the media is under scrutiny. Second, bias is conflicting: different people often perceive bias in the same media outlet to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
consider,” she adds. Sucher’s book builds on 18 years of teaching the EC course The Moral Leader. Somewhere along that journey she arrived at an important framing: The opposite of moral leadership is not immoral leadership, she says.... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
"internal" with "external" negotiations, especially focusing on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in much of this work is the view that each... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Jamshedpur. Metro Cash & Carry's primary business filled voids in the food supply chains in emerging markets, reducing waste and bringing more transactions into the tax net, although this argument could not overcome entrenched View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios