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- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
up in class.” But Jan G countered, “With proper facilitation, the learning you mention, of valuing diverse experiences, thought patterns and viewpoints for the corporation, should naturally happen Which makes all of us realize it is not... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
also bring new tools for managing advertising campaigns. These technological changes are likely to result in shifts in production and transaction cost, and thus existing patterns of advertising agency-client relations may well undergo... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
cultural background, to help families start new lives safely. AI significantly improves matches Algorithms seek to streamline that work. Paulson and Bansak analyzed patterns in two countries that accept humanitarian immigrants:... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
behavioral patterns that have worked in the past,” Goldberg says. “Changing behaviors takes time. I’m a big fan of continuous refresher training to keep the issue front of mind so companies can reduce and ultimately eliminate bad... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The System What hasn't changed? The temptation of standard options, among other bait. Standard options remain the dominant pay pattern in American businesses today, he said. Most academics have never favored standard options and regard... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
control (i.e., so-called inversions), financing patterns (i.e., cash holdings), and profit-shifting activities (i.e., transfer pricing of profits). In short, it’s broken and we have the worst of all worlds relative to the rest of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Using Internet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions is best explained in terms of industrial structures, inclusive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
ownership patterns that help to explain the dispersion. For instance, government-owned organizations tend to receive low management scores across all the sectors and countries in the study. "They are particularly weak at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008
challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves disrupted by existing work... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
for consumers to envision or articulate their needs. Even so, and despite budget pressures, smart marketers devote a portion of their market research to getting a handle on future changes in consumer behavior. Are consumers of your brand going to revert to previous... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
U.S. Congress, and scholars of international organizations are only beginning to look closely at these transnational institutions. We need to first assess the damage and study the patterns before crying out for any fundamental changes.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the coordination View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital–backed startups. We show that from 1990 to 2016 women... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
the general pattern described in the previous section, where we analyzed how some organizations made use of cross-sector collaborations for risk management purposes. The second case in this sub-group is that of Natura, a leading cosmetic... View Details