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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
grounding in the principles of general management. Character means that HBS graduates are ethical, not simply in the sense that they don’t lie, cheat, or steal. What people look for in character is “someone who believes that it is important to create value before you...
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Roger Thompson
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
mistakes in assessing complex reports. Receivers understand that senders are using complexity to hide bad news. However, strategic complexity is still effective, which can be attributed to receivers being overconfident in their ability to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
However, those lofty hopes were quickly dashed when Afrezza generated lackluster first-year sales, driving Sanofi to terminate its short-lived contract with MannKind in January 2016. MannKind's management attributed the launch’s failure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on social relationships, egocentrism, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
mistrust are bad for business. From empathy as a key management attribute to equity in the ecosystem, business leaders are increasingly called upon to demonstrate that well-being joins wealth as a fundamental purpose of business. Will...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers. To survive in this environment, cost cutting—including the renegotiation of rental contracts—is of paramount importance, especially in the short term. But the real imperatives are: Finding ways to build advantage on attributes...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
markets,” says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites “cultural sensitivity” — the ability to know what consumers will want before they know it themselves — as a key View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
predictions. Specifically, abnormal returns to two proxies for private information (insider purchases and analyst recommendation upgrades) are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are obtained for subsamples that further isolate the reduction in private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the Music Genome Project, which...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms in an industry adhere to. For example, the dominant design in automobiles today has a gasoline engine, four wheels with rubber tires, a steering wheel, a closed body, and automatic transmission. Designers may change the attributes...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
the context was GE Digital. JI: Yup. DM: You were building GE Digital in 2011 and 2012. And there's this great phrase, and I forget who to attribute it to, but someone called them GE Antibodies—that came and tried to kill this potential...
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- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
gain drawing from a qualitative study of 90 U.S.-based employees of a Japanese organization following a company-wide English language mandate. These native English-speaking employees believed that the mandate elevated their worth in the organization, a status gain they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
cross-sectional differences in communication patterns: relative to people in the line organization, staff members are more central in the corporate e-mail network and possess broader networks. However, much of this difference is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
Appreciated, valued, and a sense of belonging. These are the principal attributes that come to mind when I think about being Latinx at HBS. It’s all of those feelings I felt at home in Venezuela that had been lost in time but that have...
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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
and much research has pointed to-- the incredible creativity, innovative thinking that is often attributed to those with mental health conditions. But I also think, living with a mental health condition gives you a depth of experience...
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- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
study of the high-end fashion industry in India from its emergence in the mid-1980s to 2005. Although prior studies have attributed the specific identity, structure, and characteristic features of fashion industries in France, Italy, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
Entrepreneurs Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna R. Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Abstract This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
1980-1997, we find that after controlling for other policies and fundamentals, stock market liberalizations are associated with a significant increase in the share of imports of machinery and equipment. We hypothesize this can be View Details
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Sean Silverthorne