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- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
that "technology and knowledge advancement have again developed faster than the managers' and business owners' capabilities to leverage its usefulness in their decision making process." Philippe Gouamba reminded us that "perfection is but... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
about the pursuit of opportunities in general. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808043 Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand Harvard Business School Case 308-052 Setting up the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26
pursuit of emotional support or friendship, and unlike social ties that emerge spontaneously, instrumental networking in pursuit of professional goals can impinge on an individual's moral purity-a psychological state that results from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
maintain morale and focus, and to back up decisions with solid data on benefits and risks to different consumer populations. Q: What challenges does globalization pose to the FDA? A: The challenges are strategic and logistic. On the strategic front, the FDA has... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals By: Sippl, Kristin Abstract—While much is known about transnational climate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified Development Company (504) loan program, and the Microloan program... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small-at least at the outset-but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
frontline employees take initiative to improve their work systems to prevent operational failures. Drawing on the system improvement and team-learning literatures, we develop a framework of frontline system improvement and test it using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
problems that it presents to government officials and to business leaders in developed countries and in the developing world. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and their firm's overall performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, will push the decision-making process toward the top. And that means developing an IT strategy isn't all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles help them create continuity through time, from past successes and traditions to present goals to future visions and changes. They become institutions that have meaning beyond the current bundle of assets or lines of business.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk attitudes as well as the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne