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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
poor managers because they persist in their behaviors as reps rather than managers. This article discusses why this is common, the problems with standard advice about how to address this issue, what it now takes to be an effective sales... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
when a patient qualifies for a hospice care eligibility review. The product has started to gain traction, and the case explores how Medalogix can scale and disseminate its innovative product. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
choices around success. In addition to the moral difficulties that are posed by celebrity's narcissism and materialism, there are seeds of self-destruction in the celebrity approach to high achievement. Many people and organizations under appreciate this View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
problem where many actors must collaborate together, including companies, investors, accounting firms, sell-side analysts, regulators and standard setters, and NGOs and civil society itself. We all have a responsibility for making... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
business education could have been legitimated that way. So I started exploring in greater detail the origins of business education. That investigation led me to the archives of Harvard Business School, other business schools, and... View Details
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
Rio Doce. But again, the company runs into problems with obtaining regulatory approvals. This is compounded by the global financial crisis that seriously impacts the global steel industry. How will Baosteel react to this adverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
seatmate. Problem solved.) The campaign garnered Frito-Lay a 2009 Grand Ogilvy Award from the Advertising Research Foundation. EEG vs. fMRI Karmarkar notes that EEG and fMRI have different strengths and weaknesses, and that EEG has some... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign investor from participating. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
problems at companies with strong incentives and weak controls. I believe that we may need a new kind of external agency for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
download available at this time. Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
catastrophe that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September. In fact, had the reform legislation been in place starting in the 1990s or early 2000s, we might well have avoided the worst aspects of the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning operating strategies; (4) great service... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
online activities) and operations (e.g., school keeps track of student assessment results and select activities and problem sets from online databases). After the first year as a full-day program, results on the state test were very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
deaths from roughly 4.5 million in 1980 to 1.5 million in 2000. Yet for reasons unclear to the global public health community, the mortality rate stalled at around 1.5 million, where it remained in 2010. In presenting the problem of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne