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- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Leading Science-Based Enterprises. Says Sato: "Whether it's the Whitesides' one-lab model, with dozens of post-docs from diverse fields collaboratively working on big problems, or the Stem Cell Institute's embrace of multiple labs... View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
to new places to experience things quite different from normal practice Discussions with critics and challengers, or just those who hold a different world view, have different beliefs, make different assumptions Trend-tracking by asking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
even small differences in members' status perceptions—differences that may not be apparent to the members themselves—can diminish coordination, generate task conflict, and weaken performance. Survey data from a longitudinal field study of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the resulting dual-process learning model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
You have the moving parts of human beings delivering services interacting with human beings as customers. Culture is the guiding force; it's the difference between the positive experience you have when you interact with someone at... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
new organizations? We describe the kinds of answers that an institutional perspective provides to these questions; illustrate some of our arguments by drawing on a recent field of entrepreneurial endeavor; hedge funds; and discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
organization, no matter what its age or size. Richard Hamermesh: The theory and concepts about entrepreneurship—the research and the knowledge—have been around HBS for a long time. I would give particular credit to Howard and Bill Sahlman for conceptualizing the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
changes in the field aren’t fed back to HQ, where plans can be updated and recommunicated quickly. To remove the fog, Clausewitz believed in light decision-making frameworks that allow adaptability. Napoleon followed these principles when... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular medicine revolution-based on advances in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
offices working remotely and field teams continuing to support Sahel Consulting’s five-year Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria program. Sahel Consulting is conducting COVID-related research and developing policy recommendations... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
place aversion in queues and its implications for customer experiences and behaviors, as well as for operating performance. An observational analysis of customers queuing at a grocery store, and four online View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman