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- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2397317 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-042 Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato Privately held Simplot has developed a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
"By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect many other elements with effects that are difficult to predict." Reinert: For millennia, most trade was either in raw material... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
encountered business leaders who were more willing to speak about their strategies on camera. At the same time, we began to understand that video material could be a wonderful means to facilitate the teaching of business in emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Participants within a business market assume one or more of four primary roles to carry out these value-creating activities: Suppliers create component products or provide services, raw materials or talent. Producers design and build... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
designated partners within the larger fluid department. Our multi-method study reveals the design and benefit of minimal team structures (team scaffolds) in fluid work settings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases & Course View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
accountability and span of control to motivate different levels of innovation and entrepreneurial behavior. Six propositions are derived inductively about when, why, and how managers make these choices. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280355 Cases... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you structure the meeting. When meeting View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Security and Exchange Commission mandated that publicly traded companies had to disclose all material information to their investors at the same time. The researchers found that after the introduction of that rule, the return spread of... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't believe in a lot of the teaching View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
item, that really means you'll sell between 5,000 and 15,000 units. Instead of buying 10,000, it might be smarter to buy 5,000 finished units and materials for an additional 10,000 units to be assembled quickly if early sales are strong.... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
is unlikely to materialize without changing payment models and incentives to promote value over volume. Achieving such a seismic shift in incentive structures will require time, energy, and collaborative efforts. As technology advances,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
unto themselves, businesses have become involved in the pursuit of science and universities in the commercialization of science. Unlike traditional high technology, science-based businesses--especially biotech and pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, and View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
significant investment in materials and personnel. "There are some managers who believe that if you keep projects resource-poor, it will enhance creativity," Amabile says. "But that just makes the employees use their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to our psychological and View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53593 Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness By: Grewal, Jody, Clarissa Hauptmann, and George Serafeim Abstract—As part of the SEC’s revision of Regulation S-K,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
beliefs that people hold. Important research has been done to demonstrate the material effects of property ownership, like increased access to credit. "However, I've been more interested in looking at the immaterial effects of how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
surprising because the Intuitive Criterion refinement is the most commonly utilized belief refinement in the literature, while the Undefeated refinement is rarely employed. Our results have material implications for both research and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel