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  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2004
  • Article

Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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  • 03 Jul 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

that those creating powerful technology have to ensure what they build is used for good, and not for harm.” Within 48 hours, over 300 (out of about 120,000) Microsoft employees had attached their names to the message. The Microsoft employee message was View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

with book goodwill and two successive years of book-to-market ratios above one). We find non-impairment of goodwill is increasing in firm characteristics predicted to be associated with greater managerial discretion. We also find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

being curious (with a desire to learn and be the best you can be) is a very important characteristic for Peeksters to have, whether they are joining as an engineer or a salesperson. People who don’t have this quality won’t be a fit at... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

leading and making decisions. In the book Mukunda offers specific ways to avoid making a poor candidate choice: Avoid deceptive signals. Someone who has ridden family wealth to high office, for example, may have accomplished less than meets the eye. Match the leader's... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such "institutional voids"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

the research in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Are you and Professor Mankiw really serious? Could you give us a brief background for your idea of taxing according to personal characteristics such as height?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2003 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (A)

By: Boris Groysberg and Laura Morgan Roberts
Reviews Josie Esquivel's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, and organizational practices she has developed into a star analyst. Should Esquivel accept an offer to leave Lehman Brothers for Morgan Stanley? To make this... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Resignation and Termination; Job Offer; Franchise Ownership; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • August 2022
  • Supplement

Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)

By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Atlanta; Georgia (state, US)
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  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

sounds, this characteristic also contradicts yet another myth of innovation, that great new ideas spring in full and final form from the mind of the inventor, ready to be applied. Innovation rarely works that way, and that's why the... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

study of the high-end fashion industry in India from its emergence in the mid-1980s to 2005. Although prior studies have attributed the specific identity, structure, and characteristic features of fashion industries in France, Italy, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

embrace all of the characteristics that make him unique, regardless if they aren’t “masculine” enough by other people’s standards. I want him to never feel confined by gender stereotypes and never make another human feel confined by them... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

have the power to bring them to the table. Which investors are most likely to be able to exert influence? Serafeim: I identify two characteristics of investors that are likely to engage with companies at the industry-level on issues of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel Partners. “One of the View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

engineer to design a new version of the product with higher steel content and wider ribs so that the panels were easier to nail together and channeled rain water more effectively. Union says she’s found this kind of attention to detail and level of customer interaction... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 31 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

lofty target of commercial space travel, where he hoped to change the New Space sector as dramatically as Amazon was changing retail. His timing was characteristically prescient, since NASA was in the process of winding down its space... View Details
Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne