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  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

catch-up-with-the-buddies lunch, meetings now span a day and a half and they happen up to six times a year. While reviewing relevant materials used to mean flipping through the annual report on the plane ride to the annual meeting, it now... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who considered situations with their eyes closed rather than open judged immoral behaviors as more unethical and moral behaviors as more ethical. In addition, considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

governance regimes to meaningful transnational regulation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2178540   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 415-015 Opening the Valve: From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

government are at their lowest ever," says Buell. "There is a danger that that disgust can lead to disengagement. Showing the ways in which government materially affects people's lives through its actions has the potential to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55572 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Ecosystems By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— The purpose of this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 815-113 MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (B) This short (B) case gives an update on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

to the point where he could open most locks in seconds. "Magicians learn that to do something that only has an effect of a few seconds, it can take months," he says. "You have to think of all the things that can happen. People in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

money to spend on groceries. So if we were opened seven days a week, we wouldn't necessarily sell any more, and we would have to increase prices to cover our expenses." The Mercadona case inevitably raises the question: Can this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

needs at any particular moment." She also posed the problem of finding insider "CEO material willing to wait in the sidelines." Andrew Campbell commented that "you often have to reassess your succession plan when the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring differences in organizational strategies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of eight minutes waiting in the checkout line. However, it irritated checkout staff, who had to... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

notion that the signal-to-noise ratio plays a central role in generating multiplicity with AA preferences for fairness.   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-701 Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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