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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reads for hospital customers. We examine more than 2.7 million cases read by 97 radiologists for 1,431 customers and find evidence supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
as a for-profit "bridge" developer of educational facilities throughout the United States. He thought he had found the perfect investor in Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist, who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
(pre-registered Experiment 3), and then were divided into minimal ingroups and outgroups in the laboratory. The findings offer mixed support for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
are often shaped more by the political climate than by the actual climate. "The issue has become totally intertwined with political ideology," says Richard H.K. Vietor, the Paul Whiton Chertington Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who has been studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
United States, and Georgia-Pacific Corporation, one of the world's largest forest products companies, had pursued competing agendas for common lands. The former wanted to preserve the land untouched, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in their own way. Five barriers in particular tend to keep promising managers from becoming exceptional leaders: people overemphasize personal goals, protect their public image, turn their competitors into two-dimensional enemies, go it alone instead of soliciting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
that the markets between the very rich and the poor are disappearing. Those firms are losing the middle ground, where a lot of consumer activity has traditionally taken place. Companies also must compete... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Editor's note: In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue that reinvesting in America's manufacturing prowess is... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
traded part. That's where we find the opportunities for much higher productivity that can support high wages. You want to grow those areas where you can be highly productive View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
architecture around which the alignment process can be executed. Following are the eight alignment checkpoints for corporate, business units, and support units of a typical... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
business groups can help foster entrepreneurship in a variety of ways. They can supply seed capital for budding entrepreneurs, when such capital is exceedingly scarce. Groups are also able to provide a variety of View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
partnership with the online review platform Yelp helped the researchers evaluate consumers’ interest in dining at restaurants as well as ordering food for delivery and takeout. The team found that: People... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
next? A: We are now actively looking to work with more companies that are willing to be creative with how they encourage their employees to spend their bonuses, and companies that are willing to be creative... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
via e-mail with Executive Director Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87), and Research Associate Anders Sjöman. The School's five centers are charged with supporting the research needs of faculty View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
support for the Geneva Accords, an agreement for a two-state solution negotiated by unofficial delegations of Israel and the Palestinian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne