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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

Leadership and Organizational Behavior. The key developments include the original teaching of scientific management by Frederick W. Taylor; the change in perspective from Taylorism to the Human Relations... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

In recent months, world leaders—including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

Publications August 2013 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy and Competition By: Collis, David Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a good to consumers. However, we provide evidence of when and why doing so can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Communication: Cases for Analysis, Appreciation and Application, edited by Laura W. Black, 143-148. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2010 Abstract Pressure intensifies on a strategy consulting team as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

calibration, the model explains 58% of the log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Beautiful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

  PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book Abstract:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon, Thomas, Magali A. Delmas, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

drive this reaction. February 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science When Does Familiarity Promote Versus Undermine Interpersonal Attraction? A Proposed Integrative Model from Erstwhile Adversaries By: Finkel, Eli J., Michael I. Norton, Harry T. Reis, Dan Ariely,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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