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  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

September 11: A Community Reflects

e-mail to all graduates urging them to use this resource to communicate news and to share their reactions. “"The common metaphor we all bank on —that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world' —was pierced." —Daniel A. Shanoff... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

and organizations, leaving few left for newcomers and growth. In this context, some networks seek to sell the addresses they previously received-sales that can usefully transfer resources to the networks that most need them, but with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

with that group. The University office is an excellent resource across a range of issues and they are working on professional development opportunities for staff across the schools and creating alignment with the University's... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

and conservation, looking at waste management and water quality. All of these things are cost savings by the way. Your natural resources and land use, right. And any issues with hazardous materials, as well.... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession patterns are tracked. We train... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

products? (2) What are the differences between marketing to businesses vs. marketing to consumers? Since one of the options the firm is considering involves a consumer product—online game development—the case supports a discussion about the important differences, not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

realize the benefits of better decisions from higher levels of internal collaboration, they will naturally seek to obtain these same benefits from higher levels of external collaboration through stakeholder engagement in order to better... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

of far fewer resources in terms of staff, dollars, and especially time." The changing mix of employees and the fluid and up-tempo nature of decision-making for ACOG's project- and deadline-oriented mandate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes the configuration of the donor pool,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

dynamism—change over time—that underscored the changeable nature of all the component parts. “In other words,” he explains, “who can add what elements to the mix to increase the chances of the venture succeeding over time? And conversely,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

nature of the cohort turnover and the supervisory structures that exist in teaching hospitals, the annual July turnover of residents results in a longer average length of stay (i.e., increased resource... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

the intense concerns regarding China's growing interest in Australia's prized natural resources sector? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709007 Busse Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne