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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
(forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
process is not as daunting as it seems. Of course, the numbers indicate the richness of these data; they truly offer an unprecedented window into coordination and interaction patterns inside firms. For many organizations, these data are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
racial makeup of loan officers—a job that’s become more nuanced in a largely automated mortgage origination process, Sunderam says. Loan officers are critical to the process Loan officers play an important role for would-be borrowers,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
analysis are based on publicly available information, and also, and perhaps even more importantly, on our Chief Executive's survey we have conducted earlier this year. More than 4,500 Chief Executive Officers have responded to that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in more than 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index to measure the significance and extent of agglomeration between multinational firms. Our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to lead a space-mission... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
personal information because the additional revenues generated in the process exceed the consumer disutility incurred. Clearly, personal consumer information is a valuable asset in the marketplace. To better understand the implications of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
Economy & Society, a thoughtful analysis of whether the United States risks losing its preeminent position in attracting global talent. Kerr is the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
healthy? Would such a process disrupt Interline’s customers and employees? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-001 CEO Activism (A) This case introduces CEO activism,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
"vulture capitalists." These entrepreneurs' frustrations are understandable: Most financiers do not understand the fragile growth process that start-ups experience. But entrepreneurs themselves have also contributed to their own... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne