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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
results of the poll. Sounds like terrific results So, near the end of a particularly long and difficult mission, where the crew and scientists want to draw particular attention among school children to findings, they should simply paint a... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
when I didn't move fast enough," he said. "At Omidyar Network my biggest mistakes have been those decisions for which I didn't reflect enough before acting." As to why it makes sense for philanthropists to adopt a venture... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
won't be able to do this job. Q: What was the toughest part of the job? A: It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest situations are dealing with real-life human problems... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-034.pdf Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience Authors:Gregory M. Barron and Stephen Leider Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
denial? Because it is often easier, "safer," and more profitable in the short run, and more comfortable than confronting a problem, a poor decision made by a superior, a difficult personnel... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
circle and said, "Well, lads, ship and stores are gone. Now we’ll go home." “The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril.” —Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
to change people's minds. In order to do this, he or she must be a good persuader (part salesperson, part teacher), skills that some business leaders ignore as unimportant. Being decisive is ineffective if employees can't be convinced to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
Merkel's decision a difficult one. Instructors may also obtain a Teaching Note, written by this case’s author, that provides suggestions for using this case effectively in the classroom. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of thinking about what makes for good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
could conduct difficult but fact-based negotiations with customers. The case describes the design and implementation of the new cost and profit measurement system. It documents acceptance and decisions made... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
made during those years have sustained to this day, and it's a group I continue to learn from every year. I've never viewed HBS as simply a school or a place. I view it as a living and evolving institution gifted to us by those who came before us. So volunteering was... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
they found a good place to hide in the mountains. The next day, though, that team was attacked, and here, Brady tells the story of the last-minute decision that kept him from the subsequent, ill-fated rescue mission, the View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
develops. But how do companies embed these principles throughout the organization such that decisions are based upon them? A: It's not the words; it's the conversations. Leaders must engage employees broadly in discussions of what these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
formal organizations may be quite limited. Indeed, there is a large body of quantitative research that shows that it is difficult for one individual to exert a significant impact on the economic performance of a large, complex... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45024 Inequality... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
capital sources. Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex projects get the help they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne