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- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of The Business Insider, disagrees saying, "You can't just wave your magic wand and make something of nothing." This short case is designed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
local levels of government; (3) the Chinese electoral system; and (4) current pressures for change. Also includes a number of useful exhibits on Communist Party membership, political structure, and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
report beliefs closer to those that favor the workings of a free market. Examples include materialist and individualist beliefs (such as the belief that money is important for happiness or the belief that one can be successful without the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
implications are discussed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51617 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
firms' propensities to adopt new administrative and governance practices (Davis and Greve, 1997; Westphal et al., 1997). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Estimates produced using this instrument indicate that 10% greater foreign investment is associated with 2.6% greater domestic investment, and 10% greater foreign employee compensation is associated with 3.7% greater domestic employee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
often approach innovation and disruption much differently. Having worked hard to align strategy and organization to support the current business, they develop tunnel vision,... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
would be better off flipping a coin to determine a probable winner. “We find that even guessing at a 50-50 level is just as good, if not actually better, than using some demographic forecasts,” says Vincent Pons, the Byron Wien Professor of Business View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://issuu.com/accaglobal_publications/docs/af08_2014_comp_lowres August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Incorrect beliefs are easier to overcome than an ingrained lack of trust. However, as the researchers later demonstrate, even that remedy may prove hard to achieve. Dylan Minor, a visiting assistant professor of business administration in... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
Ballet, Mount Auburn Hospital, National Public Radio, and The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, and is a stalwart supporter of his alma maters (Stanford View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
development. In a statement read at the ceremony, the award was bestowed to Sonne of Specialisterne because "these highly gifted people require special support to get on in society—but via their particular logical skills View Details