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  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

they cut their losses and leave Japan, or could they learn from mistakes and turn things around? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/vodafone-in-japan-b/an/711469-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 711-470 Vodafone in Japan (C)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

others. Self-awareness starts with understanding one's life story and the impact of one's crucibles, and reflecting on how these contribute to motivations and behaviors. As people come to accept the less-favored parts of themselves that they do not like or have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

seed-capital investments or alumni groups. Experiments with other models, whether internal or with partners, provide experience and readiness for future change. Learning from partners, or from corporate venture capital investments, is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

transport, power, and other infrastructure needs in poor regions. Meanwhile, a new set of investor protections were developed to help protect investor property rights. What happened, and what are some of the lessons we've learned from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

logic into the business process setting to find that leaders were far more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of internet-based e-buying. However, they were commensurately less likely to adopt the more strategically sensitive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

employee learns her performance falls in the bottom of her group) leads to improvements in employees' performance, while direct positive feedback does not significantly impact performance. Furthermore, indirect negative feedback (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

part-time consultants are considered best-in-class—they are paid industry-competitive wages, and customers include LEGO, Microsoft, and Oracle—75 percent of them live with what others might consider a handicap: They have Asperger syndrome or some form of ASD. Austin... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large, multinational corporations, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Markets Authors:Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

and to Tactics Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart Publication:Special Issue on Business Models. Long Range Planning (forthcoming) Abstract The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized View Details
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

extremely tight coordination and the transfer of learning between those who design and those who manufacture. If you do not understand the production environment, you have a harder time designing the product. In these settings, there are... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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