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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
same approach they do! Based on extensive research and interviews, Own Your Future shows how to apply the simple model they use-Act. Learn. Build. Repeat-to reinvent the way you maneuver in an unpredictable job market. Here's how it...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
restricted number of candidates coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed to...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. Q: Which industries offer the most opportunity? A: Over the long run, opportunity exists in every sector. In the short term, I recommend that...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
The best and brightest executives in the world are common visitors to the MBA classrooms at Harvard Business School, giving students a personal opportunity to talk to the likes of Ann Fudge, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman, and Jack Welch. Still, when Professor Nancy Koehn...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
traditionally have depended on hard corporate data, previous literature, and insular theories, they are increasingly hinging their hypotheses on proactive sociological and psychological experiments—both in...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
Alger stories had it wrong—access to positions of power and leadership in America was not available to all equally. Who was favored during that time? Anthony Mayo: It's not that the Alger stories were wrong, it's just that the focus has View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
communities we see a vast degree of openness in which everybody can participate, but also the practice of broadcasting your work to everybody else. People continually broadcast their problems, others broadcast solutions, and the person with the problem is not View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
preferences, firms are a priori uncertain which attribute all consumers will value more. In this case, a firm that conducts market research always attempts innovation on the attribute it discovers that...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
Most advertisers have some way to have online links even in ads that aren't online. For instance, many magazine ads prominently tell you, "Here's our Web site to get more information." TV news programs always send you to their...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
one side of the market, the incumbent always invests (weakly) more in first-party content relative to the case in which it is a monopolist. Bolstering and Restoring Feelings of Competence via the IKEA Effect...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S....
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- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of...
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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
brand mix that would be carried. Results from the pilot store (a remodeled hypermarket in Beijing) were encouraging, with revenues and profits up and customers spending more on each visit. The company must decide how quickly to roll out...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming across knowledge boundaries can be difficult, and innovation is not always realized. Two streams of research are particularly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
companies? What would be the consequences of their choices on the brand and on the Group? Would they always be able to inject the Virgin culture and turn around companies?...
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Sean Silverthorne