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  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

High School, formed teacher teams to take on leadership responsibilities for the school, something that was relatively new in public education. The 40 or so BBC leaders to whom I spoke under Dyke's predecessor multiplied into the 400... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details
Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively benign environmental impacts to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

analyzes the response of this wage to exogenous changes in the marginal revenue product of labor. The paper finds parameters for which the response of wages is modest relative to the response of employment, as appears to be the case in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” or publicly View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation may take over five years so the happiness gains that they experience, while not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

not get along). Study 4 investigates a moderator of the rewarding nature of matchmaking: the type of connection. We show that bridging ties are relatively more attractive than bonding ties: the more unlikely the match, the more rewarding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

School's Alfred Chandler, the doyen of business historians, famously ascribed Britain's relative economic decline to the United States from the late nineteenth century to that country's proclivity towards family or "personal... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

new manufacturing plant, the quick and easy decision would be to choose the current low-cost location—but since that can change within a relatively short time span (as it did with China), it's also important to factor in longer-term... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

status plays a role in the price. But we also have to admit that it is one of the best cars ever produced, and that many deem the combination of its performance characteristics and quality without equal. "To get at the symbolic value... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman