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  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Extraordinary People

team. At the time, it was the highest price paid for a sports franchise, in any sport, anywhere in the world. In time, what appeared to be a very risky decision proved to be a winning business move. Kraft’s bold bets over the years have... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

videogame consoles are no longer just gaming platforms, they are gateways to a variety of digital content, including DVD movies and Internet video for the gamer and advertising and other promotional opportunities for the advertiser.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Academy of Management Review, HBS professor Christopher Marquis and coauthors Gerald Davis and Mary Ann Glynn develop a framework for understanding an important aspect of this issue: how social and governmental forces in local communities influence corporate View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

difficult to make the best hiring decisions because of their own preexisting biases. Battilana explains the problem in a yet-to-be-published paper, tentatively titled "Neither Corporations Nor Not-For-Profits But a Combination of the Two:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The View from the Pit

and an interest in health-care management. She currently teaches the required course General Management and the Foundations module Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Twenty-five years after her own graduation, Barrett notes that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

grow the business to five times its size over a period of three years. Then when Dzodan graduated university, he decided to temporarily pivot away from entrepreneurship, and he joined a large Argentinian company as an accountant. From there, he made the View Details
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

responsibility, HBS has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby's rich account reveals the surprising role of silence in HBS's process of codifying morals and values. As he describes, specifics are often left unspoken; for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans Abstract—How can workplace rewards... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

Speed Trap, was poised for publication as I came up for promotion that year at Harvard Business School. However, in a reversal of the familiar prescription for scholars, my mentors told me, “If you publish, you might perish.” They were... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

would have to explain why not (á la Finland) providing governmental incentives to promote women in the workplace, such as paternity leave and tax cuts for childcare (as in Sweden) doing pretty much nothing about it (per the United States)... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

Worcester, Brockton Interfaith Community, Elevated Thought in Lawrence, as well as statewide initiatives, such as Data for Black Lives, EdLaw Project, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. Grant decisions are made by representatives from the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

BertiniHarvard Business School Case 511-108 Barceló Hotels and Resorts must decide whether to allow its many hotels to continue to undertake separate promotional campaigns or to run, for the first time, a broad corporate-level promotion.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie

and promotions like the one we ran last summer that offered a room upgrade if you could Hula Hoop for twenty seconds or win a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors. They also write about Kimpton’s sustainability efforts, such as our partnerships... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace