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  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

three levels of organization: within a single firm, across firms, and in open community-based development projects. The hypothesis was supported in 69% of the cases. Support for the hypothesis was strongest in the within-firm sample, less strong in the across-firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

they have talent—and are actually told they are high-achievers in these subjects—women are more likely than men to shrug off the praise and lowball their own abilities. This weak self-confidence may hold some women back as they count... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., Management and Organizational Practices Surveys). For this type of data, open-ended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

Demetri Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1994). “He and I had conversations that made me realize I had a very weak understanding of how traditional capital markets and business worked,” she says. To strengthen that understanding, Coupounas, after... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets versus broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

(FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in low-tax countries. On the other hand, weak investor protections in foreign countries may increase the value of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate risk aversion with lower profits. We find, however, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

of perspectives that teams can draw upon to innovate, meta-analyses of the team-diversity literature have found weak or inconsistent support for that assumption. These studies also have typically examined effects of team diversity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

inherently abusive; the citizens of the developed country are winners and the citizens of the undeveloped country may be getting a better or cheaper product. But when regulation is weak or nonexistent, this system can lend itself to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. Accountability is a socially constructed means of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path out of Polarization

problem in geopolitics, it’s not going to be by begging countries to leave our weakness alone. We have to resolve the weakness. RDT: The information landscape used to be something that was controlled by each country. It was ours. We had a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Inside the Revolution

“For example,” West explains, “Japan has been a powerhouse in semiconductors because its form of corporate organization is conducive to that kind of technology. By contrast, Japan is weak in biotech. Patterns of innovation and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-518 Betfair (C) Prompted by a takeover bid from CVC, Betfair reassesses the strengths and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

underpaid and is more pronounced for firms with weak corporate governance and high employee turnover. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52970 The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

to think government is the only solution, it's also an error to think government is exclusively the problem. You can trace some of the weaknesses in the US business environment right back to things that businesses have done in their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

unstable environments due to the failure of governments to maintain civil and political order. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by weak institutions and high levels of political and civil violence directly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace