Breaks - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

the other parties and helps you strike a better deal, but in other situations, particularly those involving long-term relationships, it damages trust and goodwill and makes an impasse more likely. To avoid or defuse anger, take a break to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

landscape. Book: http://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-expression Authors:Cable, Daniel M.,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concise terms. In a simple and intuitive way, he breaks down the ideas into "output,"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

many high-achieving executives feel professionally dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Looking back, they wish they'd accomplished more or even chosen a different career altogether. Often they feel trapped in their jobs. In this article, Kaplan, a Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

customers and non-customers; and 2) We collected data from two laboratory studies. We break our theoretical problem into two subproblems. First, we ask, "What kind of WOM drives sales?" Motivated by previous research, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

solving the problem was of critical importance for the firm, management decided to break from convention and the disclose the specifics of the problem to a large group of unknown "outside" scientists requesting a solution in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

multiples valuation. While a multiples approach is a very convenient valuation method, breaking down the underlying assumptions can significantly improve the robustness and power of multiples valuation. Purchase this case:... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

at Risk, Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

two separate areas of research-decision making and inequality (or social disparity)-this new line of inquiry could help to break the stalemate that has, until now, characterized the study of inequality and its consequences. Download... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

is required to handle these tasks effectively. A manager can easily become overwhelmed by emotion and erupt in anger when challenged in the meeting, or even break down in tears. Participants in our study related examples of each of these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

get significant tax breaks under a Trump administration, to give more of their supply chain contracts to U.S.-based small businesses. In addition, National Federation of Independent Business surveys show that access to affordable health... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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