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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
own credibility and discerning the interests of other key players. Their three stories illustrate different elements of the process of building your bargaining endowment: (1) grab someone's coattails, (2) foster a reputation for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be visible from Hyannis Port and Osterville, two affluent communities. The coastal residents of those towns have led a campaign in Massachusetts and in Congress to thwart the efforts of Cape Wind. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
knowing what her job had been. "I thought that was kind of weird," she says. "How do you lay someone off before you know what they do?" The HR manager explained that the production process apparently didn't work... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Curt Schilling winning game six of the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees, even as an injured ankle visibly soaked his sock with blood. In contrast, 2011 has been the year of starting pitchers drinking in the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
of other extraordinary work followed, including The Visible Hand, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. In 1917, two-thirds of the CEOs of these companies were either Presbyterian or Episcopalian. If you were anything else, chances are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
seem like an odd fit. But the fact is that the business world has been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. The field of neuroeconomics has gained ground in the past 10 years, with work exploring the brain processes that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
“display set” of visible but unavailable options can exert these same types of influences on whether or not to choose a single (target) item. Across a series of experiments, purchase intent is increased when the display set and target are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Unfortunately, these same boards often have very little process in place to judge the leadership style, daily behaviors, and cultural norms being established by their senior operating leadership. As a result, board judgments are... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
was often a key lever in compensating for an outsider status. As part of the professional credential process discussed previously, many of the outsiders in our research were far more educated than insiders. The MBA as a prerequisite for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
have described as characteristic of the modern neo-liberal regime. 2013 pub Fashioning an Industry: Socio-cognitive Processes in the Construction of Worth of a New Industry By: Khaire, Mukti Abstract—This study of the high-end fashion... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
Materials Harvard Business School Case 107-018 Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global chemical company. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
are harder to replace than those with lower coupling. The measures of coupling that best explain differences in IT agility include all indirect dependencies between software applications (i.e., they include coupling and dependency relationships that are not easily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Robertson, of the acclaimed ensemble Medici String Quartet. It seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the process of creative collaboration, a central theme not just in music but in knowledge-intensive businesses. The result is... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
data, 3. drives costs to transactions and orders using specific characteristics of particular orders, 4. can be run monthly to capture the economics of the most recent operations, 5. provides visibility to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face Authors: C.E. Looser, J.S. Guntupalli, and T. Wheatley Publication: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (in press) Abstract More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace