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  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

factors that might affect the future course of this battle, such as the role of copy protection features in HD devices, the bundling of each format with video game consoles, and competing modes of delivering video content. A revised... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

  Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

financial success of companies. In fact, I am teaching a second-year elective, titled Strategies Beyond the Market, in which we investigate these linkages. Trust is obviously an important example for a factor beyond the market. Many scholars have studied the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

Raffaella Sadun’s examination of how resilient businesses can effectively and safely restart as COVID-19 abates. (Sadun’s findings are summarized in the report “Re-starting under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from around the World.”... View Details
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

statistically significant improvements in managerial effectiveness and performance. Now executives were wondering: how could Google build on the success of this project, extending it to senior leaders, teams, and other constituencies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in spreading order flow information. We focus on large portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from other entrepreneurs who varied in their managerial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

reasons why HBS decided to take a leadership role in organizing and implementing EDP. "The program has energetic CEO support in the person of Jim Wolfensohn, a focus on top-rank managers, and a global orientation," he explains. "It... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Rethinking the MBA

were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities of business and business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

lecture courses as MOOCs. While the future role of MOOCs in higher education remained a topic of public debate, edX needed to answer concrete managerial and strategic questions. For example, what should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

that allowed the Clinic to excel at patient satisfaction without jeopardizing its traditional strengths. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25931&i=25933&cs=73d8fb9a10c18f812eceaf3628cd1b24 2006 Encyclopedia of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

  Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Black History Month | Baker Library

His experience underscores the significance of perseverance, strategic labor practices, and the role of local networks in navigating systemic barriers to economic success. You can download a PDF of the editorial here. Corporate Reports -... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Offshore Learning

the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Predictable Surprises

then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

relatively soon? How will the Metaverse affect productivity? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

spend between these 4 boxes - is a Corporate/Board function if only because their primary role is to mediate between the needs of the different Biz/Op units within the corporate structure." If top-down approaches to the resource... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett