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- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
leave money on the table if they solely pursue shorter release windows. Q: Every Monday morning we hear about the weekend's top movies at the box office. Are opening-weekend numbers an accurate indicator of longevity? A: No, although it View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Reporting Advances Integrated reporting is an emerging management practice that involves the integration of a company's required financial report with its voluntary (except for a few countries) corporate social responsibility or sustainability report. Sometimes View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment. A negative value of concealment is possible and represents the event that rationally acting consumers respond to the additional uncertainty by purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
individuals are not faced with this perplexing choice of how to characterize their income depending on the audience, corporations do find themselves in this curious situation. A dual-reporting system is standard in corporate America and,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
to succeed, he said: fragmented buyers and sellers ("If people have other ways to meet, it won't work."); an inefficient existing supply chain; and, most important, knowledge of the industry domain. Functional hubs, on the other hand, can View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relative to the base model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52788 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementary spillovers). We find evidence of complementarities in specialization between cardiovascular care and related service areas.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Language Authors:Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well-defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Things change. Things also get changed—often. Why? The obvious reason is that revising things makes them better. In the current research, we document a less obvious reason: Revising things makes people think they are better, absent objective improvement. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
could do much to advance the study and practice of creativity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52919 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Quasi-Field Experiment By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
and North Africa have been referred to as "Revolution 2.0." The term admittedly ignores the vast history and evolution of governmental transitions over the ages, but these protests are nevertheless clearly influenced by network... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an essential source of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
(2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the context within which the paper was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility functions that permit preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice... View Details