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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
U.S.-centric ad hoc globalization. A handful of French policymakers—all of them socialists, paradoxically—first liberalized France and then, upon taking leadership roles in international organizations, sought to organize and manage the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to transformative regulatory changes. New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Talent Partners (B) Robert G. Eccles and Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Supplement 411-085 B) case updates company changes since the (A) case. Key updates include leadership and management appointments and organizational changes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
emerging when they begin thinking in terms of what it means to create deeper meaning in the workplace. "Rather than defining spirituality for people," says Whiteley, "I ask them to think of a time, be it at work,... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter schools in New Orleans, a market... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
effectiveness and research on knowledge in organizations. They offer complementary insights: the former stream focuses on group dynamics and measures team inputs, processes, emergent states, and outcomes, while the latter closely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
and Goldman Sachs emerged relatively unscathed, its public image took a large blow as people questioned the inner workings of the bank. To address the situation, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called for the creation of the Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
"Will we make something strong and good and wise out of all the destruction of the past two years?" Koehn is an authority on entrepreneurial leadership and history. Her previous books include Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
strategies aimed at improving working conditions in global supply chains. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 919-411 AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot Describes the entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Over the past 30 years, there have been significant changes in the distribution of earnings (cross-sectional variation has increased, with increasing left skewness) as well as in corporate payout policy, with many fewer firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
shows. We need to remember to set work aside and make time to connect in meaningful ways with family and friends, says Whillans, whose partner’s stressful work as an emergency room physician is a daily reminder to set her priorities... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
along with solutions that have emerged from our research. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/03/the-new-science-of-viral-ads/ar/1 To Zap or Not to Zap: How to Insert the Brand in TV Commercials to Minimize Avoidance Authors:Thales S. Teixeira,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of private sector View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
"Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever who holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
more or less effective. We develop these ideas in a multi-method study of a hospital emergency department (ED) redesign. Before the redesign, people coordinated in ad-hoc groupings, which provided flexibility because any nurse could work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
"retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the "American" (as opposed to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
panel of advisers-resulting in a wealth of teaching moments bound to keep you captivated. Experts agree that many twentieth-century leadership practices won't work in the turbulent twenty-first century. This engaging book gives you the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel