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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the tendency to see superior performance as rooted in one's actions rather than other factors (such as luck). The second is that success feeds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

importantly, these gains were driven entirely by increases in exports, which as a percentage of GDP rose to 30 percent, much higher than the typical 20 percent that was the norm 10 years ago. Merchandise exports rose between 2007 and 2014... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In this qualitative study, I examine the factors that influence the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. I extend previous work related to field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11% increase in current retailer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

attention to strategy-driven forms of accountability that can help them to achieve their missions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-069.pdf Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying, and build technological and market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters' countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

frame, is the perfect example. Every process, every incentive, every cultural norm was optimized to deliver efficiently, bypassing the retail channel. When the strategy changed, the organization simply did not follow. Execution continued... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

transparency of the methods used to obtain research findings. Although comprehensive reporting facilitates accurate assessment of a paper’s claims, the current reporting norm is secrecy, not openness. We begin by putting this situation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

Holland, Switzerland, Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. It was founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987 and in April 2006, the National Bank of Greece (NBG) offered to buy part of the bank. Students can consider which factors contributed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

characteristics, relationships, and behavioral norms. We suggest that an equally important trust mechanism is "reflected knowledge," knowledge focal actors' gain about the personal characteristics, relationships, and behavioral View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the way that, for more than a century, it has articulated and shaped for the larger society a set of ideas, aspirations, and norms concerning business and management. Moreover, the visions and values animating the university-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

people prefer the action that saves more lives, despite its being more aversive. Our findings shed light on the formation of moral judgment under normative conflict, the conditions for preference reversal, and the potential polarization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

the norms of science. It's an ironic and fascinating time to study technology, science, and invention. In some ways the processes of invention in firms are moving towards an open science model. For example, Novartis and the Broad... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

implies that these firms would find it especially difficult to increase the scale of their operations and grow. Hence, understanding the factors that influence growth in such firms would be a conservative test of growth in other firms.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

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