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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
in diverse markets proved a significant challenge. Still, supreme overconfidence and perverse financial incentives led to a gladiator culture in which executives proposed—and risk managers and the board of directors approved—a growing... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
judged the ethically questionable behavior of others more harshly, suggesting that childhood memories lead to altruistic punishment. Finally, in Experiment 4, compared to a control condition, both positively valenced and negatively valenced childhood memories View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
individual partners' ability to IPO, achieve outsized exits, or fail, and to what extent that performance is attributable to the firm or the partner. Shedding light on the sources of performance in venture capital firms will help us make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
post-COVID collaboration in organizational cultures reshaped by remote work. Research by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, and colleagues sheds light on the interactions that were lost during the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience
SVMP cohort led me to embrace my differences and speak confidently (and humbly) about my accomplishments. Through discussion groups and networking sessions, I formed close bonds with members of my cohort, bonds which have persisted beyond... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
to expressing powerful insights simply, concisely, and memorably led to the remarkable influence of Getting to Yes, which has sold over eight million copies and has spawned endless academic and popular offshoots. While the most familiar... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
light of these trends, we revisit the question of the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
innovation skills from role models who made it "safe" as well as exciting to discover new ways of doing things. If innovators can be made and not just born, how then do they come up with great new ideas? Our research on roughly five hundred innovators compared to... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an alternative course of action. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
Quality & Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets, and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT). Previously, Lamprecht had led ZEISS SMT as its CEO through a tough time when troubles with the manufacturing of optical systems... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
light in 2017 are substantially more likely than those without such prior ties to bring on female writers following the #MeToo movement, according to a forthcoming article in Management Science titled Scandal, Social Movement, and Change:... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries have increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of these trends, we revisit the question of the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of this trend, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
are the things that HBS is the best in the world at teaching today?” he explains. “One of those is the role of capitalism—the interaction of industry and government and how those two things are balanced.” It was that interest that led... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Sessions Case studies and topical discussions led by faculty and staff. Deeper Dive: Gaps in the Capital Stack Presenters: Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999) , HBS Executive Fellow for Climate; Founder, Probable Futures Lynn Schenk ,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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ground, reducing the amount of polluted storm water to the Charles River. The renovations also incorporated lighting upgrades to reduce energy usage, such as installation of high-efficiency LED View Details