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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
negatively related to project quality, and concentration is even more harmful for project quality for geographically dispersed teams. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how organizational knowledge resources can aid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
emergent online investing market, we construct a theory to explain how a firm becomes a cognitive referent in a nascent market and other firms' failure to do so. Successful firms conceptualize market creation as problem solving; they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2013-winter/54215/how-to-identify-the-best-customers-for-your-business/ Prolonged Thought: Proposing Type 3 Processing Authors:Dijksterhuis, Ap, Madelijn Strick, Maarten W. Bos, and Loran F. Nordgren Publication:Dual Process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the goal of microfinance is to alleviate poverty, they say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build successful enterprises, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
theory on this important workplace behavior. Findings also suggest a profoundly asymmetrical relation between the intrapersonal motivations for and against speaking up, leading to a novel theoretical explanation for the prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
networks, encouraged cable's growth, under the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." FCC Chairman Nicholas Johnson, an ardent supporter of the wired cities concept, championed a series of FCC actions helpful to the... View Details
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Verganti is Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics – House of Innovation, where he is Director of The Garden – Center for Design and Leadership. He is also on the Faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Design View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test our hypotheses with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
skeptics, a strategy to build a "winning coalition" behind a deal must thwart determined Iranian blockers who will act to prevent meaningful concessions. After six months of talks, there could easily be positive atmospherics but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being created and its effect on the user... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
researchers build on decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of rental housing challenges and what to do about them. The authors look at contributing factors and problems generated by the operation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence, strength, and credentials. But without first building a foundation of trust, they run the risk of eliciting fear, resentment, or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female faculty become "academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
FALL 1967–WINTER 1968: Building the Model AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. WILLIS: I went directly to the dean of admissions and asked, “What is going on here? This is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
example of Jobs and Wozniak at the birth of Apple Computer. “Were they the right guys to create a hand-assembled computer motherboard company in 1976?” he asks rhetorically. Answer: sure. But—were they the right guys to build a major... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
the attributes underlying their relative value. So, the Indian art market is an interesting case to understand how entrepreneurs may take advantage of changing contexts and build on the actions of other actors in the ecosystem to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who aspires to View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne