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  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

Southeast Asia and study the opportunities and challenges presented by the changing global market dynamics. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/212026-PDF-ENG Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Paul W. Marshall, Thomas R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

unsolicited gifts will be equally appreciated. At the root of this dilemma is a difference of opinion about what purchasing an unsolicited gift signals: gift givers expect unsolicited gifts will be considered more thoughtful and considerate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

discriminate in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. The veiled methodology also produces larger estimates of the fraction of the population that identifies as LGBT or has had a sexual experience with a member of the same sex. Self-reports of non-heterosexual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to persuasive appeals offered View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of health care, but fail to provide integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

revealed that the last words of death-row inmates were more positive and less negative than the simulated last words of noninmates—and also that these last words were less negative than poetry written by death-row inmates. Together, these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013 Frontiers in Perception Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-016.pdf Channels of Influence Authors:Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm's location, we can predict,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Co-founders; Women Executives; Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Research and Development; Competition; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
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Business Economics - Doctoral

Dennis A. Yao Current HBS Faculty & Students by Interest Asset pricing Lauren H. Cohen Robin Greenwood Samuel G. Hanson Ishita Sen Adi Sunderam Behavioral finance Malcolm P. Baker John Beshears View Details
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

could other businesses learn from his ascent? What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business? by Kara Baskin 09 NOV 2023 | HBS Case The pressure to do more, to be more, is fueling its own silent epidemic.... View Details
  • January 2014 (Revised January 2015)
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Reinventing Adobe

By: Sunil Gupta and Lauren Barley
By 2013, Adobe had reinvented itself from a publisher of popular software such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative... View Details
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  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea—and being prepared for them—you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

select reimportation of exported ideas. Put otherwise, top North American journals tend to reimport ideas authored (and exported) by select North American scholars in Organizations Studies. Third, we discuss the implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable customers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and paths for social entrepreneurship. Alumni Engagement Connect to a powerful global network of social impact leaders through events, interest groups, and local alumni clubs. For Organizations Build your organization’s social impact by... View Details
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

, Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Video Recording... View Details