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- 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14
with clients and (2) the Project Leader Program, targeted for project leaders and designed to help them develop the "softer" management skills to complement their technical ones. A distinctive aspect of Archimedes Academy is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408095 Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big? Harvard Business School Case 409-047 Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
distinctively influence buyers' purchasing. (Consider, Google, Amazon, and myriad others in their respective spheres.) I consider implications of these platforms' market power and then suggest strategies to help companies recapture value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
his career, Christensen channeled his time, talents, and energy into researching and writing cases designed to help teachers become more proficient at the distinctive skills—organization of course material, preparation for class, opening... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
students with a set of skills and capacities enabling them to lead more effectively); and still others have focused primarily on helping out students actually become leaders (assisting students to gain access to and acquire the identity of a leader). These are but a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
These improvisations proceed in distinct stages. At first, they're focused on creating surface-level rapport and mutual understanding. Next, they move to in-depth discussion of the issues at hand, then to explicit problem-solving... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
In contrast, power is obtained by engaging in exchanges with numerous alternative exchange partners, whose exchange opportunities are limited. These distinctions yield powerful insights into dynamics and consequences of power and status.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
networks take on distinct structural forms. Technologically stable industries feature clan networks, characterized by low network connectedness and rather strong community structures. Technologically dynamic industries feature community... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
the need for change puts itself at a distinct disadvantage to one that tracks the Four Rs along with indicators of learning and innovation. The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
as creating "shared value"-generating economic value in a way that also produces value for society by addressing its challenges. A shared value approach reconnects company success with social progress. Firms can do this in three View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
changes to introduce new competitors in the industry, remove contract termination fees, and reduce the payment of interconnection fees between cellular providers, which advantaged incumbent companies and drove up consumer prices. Kahlon applied a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
paper with Harvard graduate students Sonia Jaffe (Department of Economics) and Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School). Carmen Nobel: How can a discount voucher service like Groupon benefit retailers? Ben Edelman: Our paper looks at two View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
distinction is possible because strategy and business model are different constructs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-036.pdf The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
these assessments more complex and add more classifications, we limit the first run-through to just two alternatives per dimension which then generate eight distinct profiles that we can use to help us assess what we want to do. Even if... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With revenues growing at 9% annually over the five-year period up to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
response to unexpected endogenous or exogenous threats to meeting work goals. Managers employed two distinct forms of redundant communication to mobilize team members toward mitigating potentially threatening discrepant events—unforeseen... View Details