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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
survey of 72 successful and unsuccessful innovative entrepreneurs and 310 executives. Drawing on network theory, we develop a theory of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition that explains why these behaviors increase the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
that helps him make these decisions. But he is human and he has made some mistakes. Probably the most famous one would have been the Pentium chip incident. What went wrong there? A: What happened was that under certain circumstances, the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
and the legacy that you wish to leave, and it is probably still my favorite of all Ishiguro’s books. I also love memoirs and found Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air to be so powerful. It is a thought-provoking book for those like... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
the collective interest levels of the angels can lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding is positively correlated with higher survival, additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
verdicts, increasing the probability of a favorable outcome. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54560 Motivated Errors By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler Abstract—Behavioral biases that cause... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
what corporate value added is. Most business units think that "corporate adds overhead and that's about it." But in fact, great corporate offices do a number of very important things in driving a company. I'm also writing a book right now on succession. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
price parameter. We use data from 3,700 Catholic schools, matched to restricted Census data that identifies geography at the block level. We find that a standard deviation decrease in tuition prices increases the probability that a family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
that investors were increasingly supporting late stage research with higher probabilities of success, while funding for riskier early stage research was drying up. Should FasterCures raise money and direct it toward early stage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability of repayment. Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
kiosks. The interesting question is, where do you fall on that continuum? Acurio is probably more on the commercial end, because he is trying to create a brand to launch in other countries—it's not that he's trying to make money,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
people understand their role in the larger system. You cannot get that quality from a 30-second bite on FOX News. I think it is extremely important to note that the New York Times is a family business. The Times has benefited politically, financially, strategically,... View Details