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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
can be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Fair Pricing Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Journal of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
dimension of prior experience is whether the outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn from their own past... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Abstract The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
the context was GE Digital. JI: Yup. DM: You were building GE Digital in 2011 and 2012. And there's this great phrase, and I forget who to attribute it to, but someone called them GE Antibodies—that came and tried to kill this potential... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
(e.g., early- vs. late-stage startups, business- vs. engineering-driven cultures); and 5) the attributes of effective PMs. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/812105-PDF-ENG Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United Anita Elberse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
effervescent Lyon attributes his entrepreneurial tendencies to his father, the "Dave" of Uncle Dave's. "He has always created new ventures - everything from selling real estate to being the first licensee to sell Pac Man T-shirts," Lyon... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
deliver or a better way to deliver existing goods and services. They are funded by donors, many of them poor or anonymous. Yet these attributes should not be unfamiliar to economists. Development NGOs, like domestic nonprofits, can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
knowledgeable individuals can be attributed to ignorance. The less knowledgeable also report that their debt loads are excessive or that they are unable to judge their debt position. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX, but research on causal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
What personal attributes were crucial among the leaders you have studied? A: There is no substitute for leaders personally meeting employees. Leif Johansson, CEO of the Volvo Group in Sweden, did a lot of that when he took charge. He made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California A well-known saying attributed to Confucius identifies the essence of life's journey: By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf Cases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One of those "pioneers," Eve Benton, currently... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
attributes needed to succeed at Baker & McKenzie? How would the firm's hundreds of partners react? Offers the industry- and firm-specific content necessary for students to explore these questions and more. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
strategy. Methodological Fit in Management Field Research Authors:A. C. Edmondson and S. E. McManus Periodical:The Academy of Management Review 32, no. 4 (October 2007) Abstract Methodological fit, an implicitly valued attribute of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
mistrust are bad for business. From empathy as a key management attribute to equity in the ecosystem, business leaders are increasingly called upon to demonstrate that well-being joins wealth as a fundamental purpose of business. Will... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
attributing his success to his father’s presence in his life, Bradford says that his father gaining custody of him “was the best thing that ever happened to me.” His bond to his brothers remains strong and as he watched the video of... View Details