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  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept of Corporate Strategy, Irwin: Homewood), attempts to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky (as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

workshop." Over the past 10 to 15 years the object of management attention has widened to include the care itself. With the development of generally accepted standard processes we have become able to design operating systems specifically to support those processes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences with traditional borrowing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to decision-making and management. We also show that these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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successful career—and a life well lived The Path Ahead Dean Datar answers alumni questions about his vision for the future of the School My Pandemic Year A view from the HBS campus, in the words and drawings of one student Complete Table... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units throughout Latin America and how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

stresses is moving from where the problem is to where the opportunity is. The second thing we emphasize is that no matter what your position or lack of resources, you should be able to contribute to the success of an enterprise or to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately leads them to regress into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

need in high-stakes situations. I think the incoming president has been very successful in terms of how he’s managed the American media to his ends. I can count on two hands the number of leaders I have seen in my lifetime who could walk... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw