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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
phenomenon whereby the potential to be good at something can be preferred over actually being good at that very same thing. We document this preference for potential in laboratory and field experiments, using targets ranging from athletes to comedians to graduate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
change initiative more recently? What were the main customer service problems that were harming the company? And what did the "Mystery Shopper" component reveal? A: In the late 1990s, the company's comparable-store sales gains... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
problem aside and turn it off. If you can’t do that, you really won’t be able to do this job. What was toughest part of the job? It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on company... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
refused to go along, since this branch was concerned about aircraft operating from carriers. McNamara urged field commanders in Vietnam to apply measurement to enemy losses, but did not realize until it was too late that the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
financial measures makes little sense. All the financial incentives in the world won't transform CEOs into better decision makers. And bad decisions can bring companies down. Boards have an obligation to shareholders to ensure that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
businesses, the financial reporting problems, and governance breakdowns inside and outside the firm. The case offers students an opportunity to explore why Enron failed and to understand the systemic problems in governance that affected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make mistakes, clients make mistakes, people... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky (as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act to implement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
contain thousands of them. SEEQC is attempting to replace all that room-temperature equipment with digital control chips that measure one centimeter on a side and function at the same unimaginably low temperatures as the company’s quantum... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
their authentic selves, and the organization respected and leveraged their talents and provided a sense of connectedness. Eight best organizational practices for instilling such a culture emerged from their interviews: 1. Measure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne