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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have selected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
on all counts, you have a model that is under significant pressure. Alvarez: What's fascinating is that the model has worked for Walmart for a very long time and looked like a juggernaut that nobody believed could be stopped. You had this... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
as Tom Nicholas suggests in a recent survey of the literature, while many scholars have documented the link between innovation and economic growth, a less well understood question is, "What drives innovation in the first place?" Historical View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
rigor, it is hard to understand the significance of this empirical literature, and quite easy to dismiss it as anecdotal and unscientific. Third, many business historians still work within national frameworks. As a result, much literature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
several aspects including familiarity with systems, knowledge of co-workers, adjusting to the work culture of the firm, and most of all developing processes in harmony with colleagues. To assist new hires in... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses-is a recipe for failure, according to the authors. Meanwhile, CEOs spend too much time on managing today's earnings and too little time on building the kind of learning... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Working PapersLearn-how to Improve Collaboration and Performance Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Joseph H. Carpenter, and Jeffrey D. Horbar Abstract Organizational learning, a prerequisite for high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Iraq and Syria. So Turkey’s future prospects are likely to be greatly influenced by what happens to its regional neighborhood. Further complexities arise from the on-going domestic culture wars between Islamists, currently led by Recep... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
two-minute version is that after I left HBS I worked at McKinsey down in Texas. I learned two major things while I was there. First, the way to make money in commodities markets is to have superior information, to make better trades, and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
(c) that some of our people are really very inexperienced and starting from scratch. How do we set up a coaching system? First of all, the literature shows that mentoring systems work best when people select each other, not when they are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Working Papers Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison Authors: Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao Abstract Purpose—This paper provides a systematic comparison of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace