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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
technology, he says. Yoffie puts the challenge to his students in the EC course Strategy and Technology: “I tell them that this is real. This is not a hypothetical. This is the world as we will know it over the next five to six years. The... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
States to test whether the presence of local television news affects local civic behavior. Spanish-language local television news programming was available in 25 US metro areas in 2002, up from only 14 areas in 1994. Our estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
did. Most teaching around being a successful negotiator focuses on preparations before discussions start, and on strategies during the talks. The problem: We don't spend nearly enough time after the negotiations to grade our performance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise Technology companies. During that time, an Ebola outbreak ravaged West African countries. I feared that during and after the outbreak... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Feagler retained his passion for the mountains and outdoor life. In 1995, this avocation led to an accident that meant the end of his aviation career and the beginning of an ordeal that would severely test his physical and emotional... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
Moon challenges business leaders to rethink their business strategies and inspire differentiation that leads to success. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life Francesca Gino wants you to break the rules. Or at... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
strategies adopted to date. What we are experiencing in California and elsewhere may be a massive "on-the-job training" exercise that will lead to better-informed efforts to implement deregulation in the future. What do you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local large employers that would want the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
company is about. Develop preliminary hypotheses. The key here is hypotheses based on criteria and data that the venture can use to test things both internally and in the marketplace. This may sound obvious, but start-ups often try to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy literature by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
the city grapples with profound challenges—rising temperatures, volatile weather patterns, and a growing strain on its infrastructure. In its effort to address climate related risks, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched The Mumbai Climate Action Plan... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
achieved, they forfeit their pledge to a friend or charity. The reason the strategy works, says Norton, is that instead of prohibiting behavior, as most diets do, it allows users to continue their behavior if they want to—but also sets up... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
(but growing!) company, which means that every day is a new adventure. On the ‘typical’ side, there are the must-dos: order fulfillment, customer service, and paying the bills. Beyond that, on any given day we could be negotiating with a distributor from Indonesia,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne