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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
content. Mandalay is trying to reinvigorate its core movie and television businesses, maintain growth in the sports business, and be prepared for the opportunity to buy a major league professional sports... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
strongly pro-Trump Fox News) wrote to all employees that he was donating $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in reaction to the president’s statements. This issue raises the question, where does a CEO's responsibility lie when... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
Thomas examined whites who plateaued, minorities who plateaued, whites who broke through, and minorities who broke through. He found that the majority of minorities who broke through to the top have had a heterogeneous network of peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
models and policies are incomplete without taking into account the bargaining process and, in particular, the way in which this process interacts with underlying control structures in the household. Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
enthusiasm they engender? A: The Olympics is one of most powerful brands in the world. The only other sporting event in that league would be the World Cup in soccer, which has a huge following every four years just about everywhere except... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
manufacturing firms, asking whether they would be willing to take part in a study of how CEOs spend their time. Some 356 CEOs agreed to participate. Some family CEOs spend less time at work than professional CEOs, especially during major... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
future interactions of both the infected person and his or her past connections. In addition, because a majority of COVID-19 cases are with no symptoms, they go undetected. Proactive testing can identify the silent spreaders of the... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
culture. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510091-PDF-ENG Major League Baseball Advanced Media: America's Pastime Goes Digital Anita Elberse and Brett LaffelHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system were planned to occur at the same time as GQ but were subsequently delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts in the context of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
wishes he had taken the entrepreneurial plunge sooner. Students also study the case of major league All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling, who, as his pitching career winds down, decides to switch gears by... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
allow people to act on temporary emotions and impulses. (A recent paper by David Card and Gordon Dahl shows a 10 percent spike in domestic violence immediately after a local National Football League team suffers an upset loss,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
backlash, I found that only immigrants who were linguistically far from English and who came from majority non-Protestant countries fueled political opposition. In other words, native-born people feared immigrants who seemed more... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
devotees, while drivers of the Cayenne (which came to be known as 'the SUV for soccer moms') tended to be safety-conscious, family-oriented, and conservative. Evolving debates on forums allow a class to debate whether the brand had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
all—but I think the book holds four important lessons. First, the blockbuster strategy works. Second, bets on star talent bring important advantages but also major headaches, and the power of those at the very top will likely only... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
alter interactions between functions, in ways that hold major implications for organizational structure. Intense, ongoing coordination becomes necessary across multiple functions, including design, operations, sales, service, and IT.... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Hamermesh, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Business Healthcare Initiative, discuss the barriers to personalized medicine and suggest ways to overcome them. The blockbuster model for developing drugs, the authors point out, is still what most View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace