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  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

mechanics that add very little to the competitive position or underlying value of the enterprise." But while board members are now taking their jobs more seriously, their input is not necessarily as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

have a positive change in the year after their investments abroad. SWFs where politicians are involved have a much greater likelihood of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

styles of noteworthy leaders or learning what effective leaders do and trying to emulate them (and most certainly not from merely being in a leadership position or position of authority). If you are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

perceived to be a hotbed for fraud. I estimate that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-072.pdf Variance-Seeking for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

In recent years, business schools and investors alike have been paying more attention to social entrepreneurs, those who create ventures with the primary goal of achieving positive social change. But most people encounter the field only... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

increasing inequality, at least in the U.S. and U.K., has positioned those countries in excess of the "right amount." Among those supporting this view were Bob Dillon, who commented that "Greed seems to have overtaken some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable men." We also explore... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

Much management theory stresses how firm-specific resources—especially knowledge—accumulate over time, and become embedded in distinctive routines or cultures which shape the competitive advantage of firms. Business historians are in a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in a world in which the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

competition effects to dominate within store categories—especially among discount and midscale stores—but positive agglomeration effects to exist across store categories. Although varying by store brand, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while motivations propel them to do so. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

competition takes place at a very conceptual level, Li Ning has chosen to adopt a very controversial "oriental theme" for its brand, while becoming at the same time a major sponsor of international athletes of the highest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

some PowerPoint slides—a process that Bill Burnham, a former CSFB Internet analyst, calls 'the competitive devaluation of underwriting standards.' But nowhere did the wall between research and banking fall so completely as in Quattrone's... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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