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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
the predictions of the neoclassical model; and (3) public debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
The Italian lira? The British pound? The French franc? Or all three? The result could determine the success or failure of the project for a single European currency. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709026-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
Emerging Challenges for Business and HR Leaders Authors:Gilbert Probst, Sebastian Raisch, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organizational Dynamics 40, no. 4 (2011) Abstract Large firms are prone to failure in the face of changing industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
did not achieve its launch targets.1 They realized that a reason for the initial failure was that the company had used an existing channel. This channel was well suited to take another product—the Rohm and Haas 886 liquid biocide—to a... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
was the same respondent who described the early days of the pandemic as a blur of focused action, an “intense period of quick thinking, innovation, communication, implementation trial and error,” suggesting that his self-efficacy had been high from the beginning of the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur without growth, so the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or brands) can face a larger demand for new products than new entrants. Moreover, the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
consistently outperformed the industry. The company's culture was on display during the power grid failure of September 2003, when two of Continental's three hubs went dark and other airlines grounded their fleets. Continental's... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
consultants, and promoters can give us a good idea of a product's acceptance within a week. With one of our perfumes, we realized it would be a failure from the consultants' reactions, even before the actual product was put into the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many business failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
“combined leadership explained a remarkably high proportion of the success or failure of each team.” Just four leadership variables–quarterback, coach, general manager, and owner–explained 68.2 percent of variance in team performance... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
leadership team create an action plan that makes sense for the company's strategy? This case is designed to be used with the "Balanced Scorecard Simulation Game." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112048-PDF-ENG Social View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
negatively associated with FLSI. These findings suggest that rather than relying on hiring motivated individuals, managers need to support employees' efforts to improve their work systems by (1) creating a work environment where it is safe to talk about operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
believe that the process of voting has resulted in an unacceptable outcome. More generally, we show that procedural justice plays a key mediating role in determining the relative success or failure of various empowerment initiatives—from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
failures to protect citizens. The paper argues that avoiding complicity should be the appropriate focus of managerial responsibility. February 2015 Management Science When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
of innovative ecosystems holds great promise for significant scholarly work over the next decade. Francesca Gino The last decade has documented several ethical failures which have caused remarkable harm, including those of individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
http://hbr.org/2010/01/managing-yourself-five-ways-to-bungle-a-job-change/ar/1 Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard Authors:Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1 (January-February 2010): 114-120... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace