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  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

I've witnessed at the senior management level is the focus the CEO now has to have on the quality of people around him." Because of the sheer volume of information and complexity of the business today, he... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

  Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

performance, in whatever way one chooses to define performance (for example, quality of life, or value creation for all entities), and provides access to that causal link. Integrity is thus a factor of production as important as knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

spaces. The drive and attention to detail that characterize Hansjörg Wyss can be misleading. While these are qualities that colleagues would probably use to describe him, it would not be accurate to assume Wyss is also a meticulous... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

discussions to exchange electronic information and high quality content. SS: One other thing underscored during the conference was that people respond differently to different ways of teaching. Someone in an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so many hours helping me prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

through the selection of leaders. That is, what qualities should we look for in leaders capable of employing denial usefully? To what degree do they include such things as self-confidence (within acceptable levels of hubris),... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

information flow through social media " Respondents described what increasingly will be required of leaders. Kapil Kumar Sopory said that "Leadership these days has become a complex art people with bias for listening, testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

your goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. Q: What do you think about the issue of flexible work... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

amounts of information quickly and receive immediate feedback, including the cues that come from tone of voice and body language, the researchers say. That enables them to adjust their work and clear up misunderstandings. Choudhury and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

flexible arrangements. 4. Recruit and promote from diverse pools of candidates. 5. Provide leadership education. 6. Sponsor employee resource groups and mentoring programs. 7. Offer quality role models. 8. Make the chief diversity officer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

success. It shows entrepreneurs how to grow their business with less money than they thought they needed and steers them to free quality advice. Winning in Turbulence by Darrell Rigby (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Many more companies... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

produce benefits, particularly in light of what's going on now in terms of a number of these privatized firms being de-listed? What is the role of institutional reforms in improving information and accountability?" Global Investor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace