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  • 25 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

keep notebooks to write down quick ideas, but they miss the opportunity to generate immediate discussion on those ideas. Through our group text, any idea that got introduced would be built upon on the spot, and the discussion would inspire new tangential ideas. ... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of the waste management industry. The intent of the (A) case is to have students perform operational analysis on the organic waste to energy process to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when evaluating past (un)ethical behavior, they believe they behaved more ethically than they actually did. We use the "want/should"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

change in the composition of its board. Now the Medtronic directors must evaluate how the board has changed, how it will continue to change, and how it should prepare for the future. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

specialization can give rise to standalone products that are too narrow to appeal to potential acquirers or too difficult for venture capitalists to evaluate against other potential investments. But it’s not the quality of the knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, and make it safe for participants to act effectively on their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

data so that they can evaluate both causes of and responses to the crisis. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709036 The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

  Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

Electric. What if GE's board had picked someone other than Jack Welch as CEO? Would the company have performed the same? Most likely, GE would have chosen someone quite similar to Welch had he not accepted the job, Mukunda says. Because... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement Authors:Matthew Carty, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

activities of a publicly funded public good? Which opportunities are attracting entrepreneurs? Within each opportunity area, what possibilities and constraints do entrepreneurs face? How might we evaluate the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

model that explains employees’ moral evaluations of and reactions to referral practices based on the power relationship between a referrer and a hiring manager. Specifically, we predict that employees are more likely to see the acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

platform dedicated to revolutionizing health care innovation through experiential learning. Autonomous surgical robots, health care artificial intelligence, targeted therapeutics, and AR/VR surgery—what was once science fiction now helps doctors View Details
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

benefiting their performance irrespective of whether these decisions negatively affect other profit centers. However, the firm implemented a third system that would potentially lead managers to benefit other profit centers. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne