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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

donations with animal shelters and other organizations that provide direct care to animals.” For Exley, it is not all about the dogs. She’s primarily focused on her new career as an economics professor at HBS, where she’ll be teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

focuses mainly on work related to developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53305 November 2017 Research Policy The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions By: Azoulay,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

various parties, from governments to auto manufacturers to consumers. The fledgling company has made good progress in both Israel and Denmark as the first two launch locations but faces a series of decisions on the best course of action... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

business leaders. “It’s disheartening to realize just how many women have had their careers and lives affected. But when you think back to Anita Hill over 20 years ago, there’s a difference now in recognizing how widespread this is, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

around the globe. As he considers 3i's performance through the first quarter of 2006 (3i's fiscal year 2006), he must balance his satisfaction at the firm's results and progress in the recent buoyant market with the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However, exponential technological progress... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

the candidate who probably feels like getting board/investor visibility is a strong positive in their career development." —Rob Go, partner, NextView Ventures Marketing, sales & partnerships Table stakes: Introductions to potential... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

(Autodesk) entered a contractual agreement to share all project risks and profits. During the project, however, Autodesk was unsatisfied with the design progress and asked the project team to introduce a three-story atrium in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

infighting, and allegations of corruption. The district was by far the lowest performing in the state, and nearly half of its 125 schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress goals in 2004 as required by the federal No Child Left... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

financial return on organizational investments to reduce physician burnout. A model outlining the steps of the typical organization’s journey to address this issue is presented. Critical ingredients to making progress include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

pressured to embrace a more sustainable approach to their business. With fashion and luxury industries progressively rising to this challenge, what does it mean for Stella McCartney's brand's ethos to be a responsible, honest, and modern... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

burn cash faster than they make it. But already successful pioneers such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! have transformed industry dynamics, opened new career aspirations, and become emblematic of a new workplace style. The wanna-dots are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a report that environmental specialists and senior executives at UBS had compiled. It suggested the company adopt a more progressive policy on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part of the country were they from? What was their age, income, and education by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism By: Gow, Ian D., Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine how shareholder activist campaigns affect the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

turn, that education helped to facilitate new social networks—the opportunity to associate with individuals of influence and access to new career prospects. The Civil Rights and Affirmative Action legislation of the 1960s and the Title IX... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-065.pdf Demographics, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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