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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
that the time was now to capitalize on the trust that the platform had built with its members and explore adjacent opportunities. The options in front of them represented a wide variety of ways to grow, but how should the team prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
and within limits, a legal, fairly unregulated U.S. commerce in cadavers is taking shape. The growth of entrepreneurial ventures suggests that the question of whether such commerce can exist has de facto been answered. Cadavers are being donated every day to a View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
higher quality firm governance leads to a larger effect of tax avoidance on firm value. The results are robust to a wide variety of tests for alternative explanations. Taken together, the results suggest that the simple view of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
intensity of the debates and the opportunity to figure out on the fly what they think about the variety of opinions that are voiced in class. Each of the stories reliably evokes certain themes and issues. The lesson plans are designed to... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models and formulate strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves as men—the stories they tell themselves about what it means to be male—and in the effect this sense-making has on how they behave at work. Much research on gender in organizations documents how... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors must decide whether EforAll is ready to open its first out-of-state office. Students are asked to consider a variety of factors—including funding, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
around the world today are seeking to promote entrepreneurial and venture capital activity, employing a variety of "stage setting" and direct strategies. These steps are sensible, given the historical record and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
research in a variety of industries, and filled with examples from companies including Cisco Systems, La Farge, Starbucks, Best Buy, and Jones Lang LaSalle, Gulati explores the five levers of resilience: 1) Coordination: connect,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified cultures, deliver a wide View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
Sachs started the 10,000 Small Businesses program to help small businesses in the United States by providing education and a network of support—at no cost —and access to capital. It required the firm to create a new business ecosystem with a wide View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
are at least 60 and up to 100+ years old). By day, he is the head winemaker at Turley Wine Cellars, a leading Zinfandel producer. In his spare time, however, he runs his own winery called Sandlands, which produces premium wines using historic, out-of-favor grape View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of workers’ characteristics and circumstances that lead them to engage in what we call "toxic"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
In past issues of this newsletter, we have highlighted a variety of psychological biases that affect negotiators, many of which spring from a reliance on intuition. Of course, negotiators are not always affected by bias; we often think... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods (correlational and experimental) demonstrating that happier people give... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace