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- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
objectives on which these kinds of actions should be based? Can organized labor form the necessary kinds of alliances with business and government that might be necessary to, in Pinel's words, "address the contemporary issues of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and R. Daniel Wadhwani, an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713480-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 210-047 Five and Six Dulles Station Cricket Real Estate Advisors needs to decide if they should invest in a proposed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
private school. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50036 Discretion in Hiring By: Hoffman, Mitchell, Lisa B. Kahn, and Danielle Li Abstract—Who should make hiring decisions? We propose an empirical test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Drawing on nascent research, we examine a handful of pathways through which inequality may plausibly influence individual decisions. Finally, we propose ways that these and other pathways might be productively explored and assessed... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase production to leverage the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
today's breakneck world, who has the time for such things?" Several cited the difficulty of selecting a new CEO, particularly from within, given the changing nature of the needs of a modern corporation. As Veronica Serrano put it, "it is easier to get from... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Many in business long believed that product innovation sprung from inside their own companies—that is, until economist Eric Arthur von Hippel came along in the late 1970s. Von Hippel proposed that users were... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
interest tax deduction. Retsinas is a senior lecturer in real estate at Harvard Business School, director emeritus of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Q: What factors have... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas W. Feeley, who recently joined... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
(forthcoming) Abstract We propose that managers' awareness of their own and others' cultural assumptions (cultural metacognition) enables them to develop affect-based trust in their relationships with people from different cultures,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Every business leader faces difficult tradeoffs when working to make a company both profitable and purposeful. But leaders who articulate a company’s deep purpose can tap into that broader vision to help them navigate short-term decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
because they have not implemented reforms proposed to them by creditor nations. My belief is that there is plenty of blame to go around, but there is still a way for Greece to recover to the betterment of the entire European community.... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
executives at a major multinational corporation, and with participants in an open-enrollment program at a major business school. Student course feedback and a follow-up survey administered about one year after the course suggest that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and Operations Management unit of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace