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- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss aversion, we View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman Publication:In Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment. Oxford University Press, in press Abstract We explore interventions at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
and customers will react in a business world populated by leaders with these characteristics is another matter. Gerald Nanninga's comment suggests that it may not be an issue. As he put it, "Leaders have never had all the answers.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Several conclusions arise than can help inform the design of care delivery platforms for HIV/AIDS. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-093.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAccenture's War for Talent in India Harvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
help sustain superior profits in the long run. We conclude with an exploration of ways in which a firm's business model may impact negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment returns.” Rather than hold CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
drive this reaction. February 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science When Does Familiarity Promote Versus Undermine Interpersonal Attraction? A Proposed Integrative Model from Erstwhile Adversaries By: Finkel, Eli J., Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
economy. The argument presumably extends as well to other countries with developed economies. Pisano and Shih maintain that their proposals are intended to encourage the regeneration of the "industrial commons" the "R&D... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to shift (to a supplier) the risk a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
system is in better shape. Professors Victoria Ivashina, David Scharfstein, and Arthur Segel, all members of the Harvard Business School Finance Unit, examine the current state of affairs. victoria Ivashina Is the US financial system in... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-113.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-010 Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision In 2010, Experience! The Finger Lakes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those companies' corporate boards. Traditionally, board... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 Abstract The idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not novel. In the 1960s several scholars conducted research and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006
these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders, she has View Details