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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

decision will be informed by dynamics in the North American sugar market-NAFTA affords Mexico unique duty-free access to the U.S.-as well as the world sugar market and other major sugar-producing countries, especially Brazil. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

level. The global community tends to look to governments and multilaterals during public health crises, but in what contexts can the private sector be better equipped to act and in what ways? ArcelorMittal (AM), an integrated steel and... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

balancing act is perhaps too eloquent; it was more like juggling a few bowling balls while climbing up 10 flights of stairs. I would focus 100% on my internship with an LA-based fintech startup during the day, and then 100% on FinGig in... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

prominent South African leaders, like Nelson Mandela, and to the national soccer team. But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its progressive constitution View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative announcement. Finally, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

ambidexterity, the ability of a firm to simultaneously explore and exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

certain securities, engaged in irresponsible investment behavior, and offered privileges to insiders not afforded to ordinary investors. During the famous "Hundred Day" congressional session that began his presidency, Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Toy Story

care about the brand and are good ambassadors. They can explain the product and convey the value of it.” (See sidebar, page 36.) Without these ambassadors, he observes, it is harder for people to see the educational value of LEGO... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Innovation, Inc.

most middle-class Indians could already afford to buy. The opulence also justified the high prices and created a natural market because these were luxurious garments that could be worn at festive occasions such as weddings, when people... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

employees are more likely to speak up and offer solutions when organizations launch information campaigns to promote process improvement and when managers engage in process-improvement activities themselves. We test our hypotheses in the health View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace