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- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
forget more than 80% of the information they were taught within 90 days. To increase retention and effectiveness, companies should offer reps additional training at times of need, provide them with access to supplemental material that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our faculty drawing on interviews with... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
Management Review The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
interconnections to form within existing systems—and there seems to be a rising frequency of such events. Since we inhabit an increasingly tightly interconnected global collection of such systems, finding ways to reduce and to manage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15
of investors―extracted from co-search patterns―in addressing long-standing benchmarking problems in finance. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 August 2013 Academy of Management Journal Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (EFC), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
is that women’s thin representation at senior levels remains in place. We conclude by highlighting contributions to work-family, workplace inequality, and systems-psychodynamic theory. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55807 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
exercise (Negotiation Strategy Simulation)—illuminate how through a thoughtful process of probing and testing, a negotiator may determine whether the other party tends to be cooperative or competitive. The material also demonstrates how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49412 Forthcoming Management Science Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Consumer... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered and were conquered. The present volume, assembling some of the brightest lights in the field,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an essential source of reference for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details