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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
stop cigars and pipes on our flights." We had to go to the government to get approval of that, a simple decision like that, just to give an example. And obviously fares, you could do nothing major in the fare area. AW: You're starting to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
“good”—economic research indicates that people’s behavior often reflects such motives (Fehr and Schmidt 2006; Abeler, Becker, and Falk 2014). Perhaps this should not come as a surprise to economists, given that Adam Smith prominently highlighted such motivations in The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
bridging. We conclude by highlighting fruitful avenues for cross-disciplinary dialogue in the hope of promoting future research on emerging markets and defining the next frontier of institutional theory in organizational analysis.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first job. "We are talking about the 'knowing-doing gap,'" says MacCormack. "The very first time you put theory into practice, you learn all the challenges associated with applying the theory. We wanted to add a course that... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in our first year, raised a couple million more in funding, and had over 100 customers.” By mid-2010, however, it became clear that although the business was on a profitable path, it would never be a big company. “We pivoted, took a leap aside, and had to View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
School’s Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, studies entrepreneurship in Hollywood. Like other entrepreneurs, screenwriters struggle with the decision of how to advance their product. Should they pitch just a story line... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
require construction of broader coalitions of policymakers, place more constraints on executive decision making, and have more competitive selection processes. As a result, there are stronger political motivations for Vietnamese leaders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Every firm has two strategies, we learn early on in the pages of One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. "Explicit" strategy is the one you read about in your company's planning memos and PowerPoint slides.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
core skills they need to become integral members of their company’s decision-making teams. It emphasizes decision making and the implications of decisions. While many texts teach the theories and frameworks... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
sustainable, scalable-by designing a system that sets up everyone to excel. The Four Service Truths Once you accept the idea of trade-offs—and break the addiction to service heroes—the inputs into service excellence are much easier to consume. We View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
paid for the days they had worked, the district was completely out of money and had to lay everyone off. As people started to return to the city, the schools needed to be reopened. Given the condition of the district, in November 2005 the... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
clients and employees who felt betrayed by the firm's apparent misconduct. He must confront some tough decisions about recently uncovered questions concerning the handling of certain accounting transactions three years earlier and about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2377353 When to Sell Your Idea: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne