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- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
participants were given a series of seven letters and asked to create as many words as possible," the paper explains. "The last series of letters was presented in a different order for each... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
multinational investment in host economies, and this chapter reviews this research. The focus is primarily on developing country host economies and more broadly on the global distribution of wealth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
that lets consumers choose which purchases to pay off each month. Consumers who used this “repayment-by-purchase” method, on average, paid 12 percent more toward their balances. With COVID-19 restrictions tamping down spending and New... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
preliminary findings suggest that the profound economic metamorphoses taking place in Latin America's emerging economies have imposed dramatic changes on the competitive environment, compelling firms to develop new strategies View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
rental customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Gelsinger's Time Go? Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, is deciding how to structure the firm presence in cloud computing. He can pursue the opportunity in multiple ways: doubling down the investments in an internal and nascent cloud offering,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
certain legitimacy, which means broadening the base of political involvement to include the poor. Poverty, after all, is not only a matter of income; it also reflects and takes form in powerlessness,... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
similar concepts, such as path dependence and cohort effects. We then provide a framework to order and unite the splintered field of imprinting research at different levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English program was a necessary step to fulfill Hori's ambition to make GLOBIS the number one business school in Asia; however, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal confessions, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth: companies large and small are shuttering more quickly than ever. What does it take to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne