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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
in diverse markets proved a significant challenge. Still, supreme overconfidence and perverse financial incentives led to a gladiator culture in which executives proposed—and risk managers and the board of directors approved—a growing... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
less so about those of their colleagues in other functional areas. In light of the speed at which new technologies continue to emerge, digital transformation is not a one-and-done process, and neither is the leadership transformation... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
behavior of others. In addition, increasing moral saliency by having participants read or sign an honor code significantly reduced or eliminated unethical behavior. While dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the hypothesis that black... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
possibility, in light of the lessons of the Kursk submarine rescue failure. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-003_f69cf9de-5517-4355-95c4-5555674a37ee.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
help shed light on how digital strategy relates to or differs from traditional strategy, we embarked on this Handbook project. We believe that with the rapid intensification and the inescapable consolidation of the key issues of the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Studies, won the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Legacy of Violence, upends old myths about the British Empire and sheds new light on the legacy of colonialism that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
individual partners' ability to IPO, achieve outsized exits, or fail, and to what extent that performance is attributable to the firm or the partner. Shedding light on the sources of performance in venture capital firms will help us make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an alternative course of action. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
judged the ethically questionable behavior of others more harshly, suggesting that childhood memories lead to altruistic punishment. Finally, in Experiment 4, compared to a control condition, both positively valenced and negatively valenced childhood memories View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
light in 2017 are substantially more likely than those without such prior ties to bring on female writers following the #MeToo movement, according to a forthcoming article in Management Science titled Scandal, Social Movement, and Change:... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
of information and perspectives between the two firms, and led to a novel type of agreement. ABB would design and build the plant at a far lower cost than standard. Then, if ABB could reduce the cost even further, it would receive a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
post-COVID collaboration in organizational cultures reshaped by remote work. Research by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, and colleagues sheds light on the interactions that were lost during the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of this trend, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
to expressing powerful insights simply, concisely, and memorably led to the remarkable influence of Getting to Yes, which has sold over eight million copies and has spawned endless academic and popular offshoots. While the most familiar... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
innovation skills from role models who made it "safe" as well as exciting to discover new ways of doing things. If innovators can be made and not just born, how then do they come up with great new ideas? Our research on roughly five hundred innovators compared to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries have increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of these trends, we revisit the question of the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
light of these trends, we revisit the question of the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne