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- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
be more forgiving in that it can fit a wide range of body types. Products like men's dress shirts and women's hosiery, which have consistent, known sizing, are also amenable to online buying. Basic garments... View Details
- 30 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
businesses. In addition, it must collaborate with other schools at Harvard, and cultivate a faculty and student body that can react to economic crises like the current one. Key concepts include: At this time View Details
Keywords: Education
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
between the firm and an outside investor. A common assumption in the signaling game literature is that beliefs among the participants in the game are refined using the Intuitive Criterion refinement. Our experimental results provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international business (IB) View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
small association with violations in the unauthorized channel. Last, we link our results to the literatures on agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and theories of price obfuscation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
leadership are all about, we fear that innovation will remain an "unnatural act" in many corporations. A sizeable body of research on engendering innovation exists; too little View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
experiential curriculum—known as the Roadtrip Nation Experience—has since undergone a literature review by outside evaluators, which gave the leadership team an opportunity to get a better grasp of their... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
recognized. But the nature of these institutions has been very crudely defined. A whole body of research has unfavorably compared Latin American institutions with those in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
This is one of the major lessons of the current U.S. financial crisis, a lesson that should not be forgotten. The new prudential regulatory body would in essence be a bigger,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond markets has been an active area View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
by David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak Harvard Business School Press By mastering the principles of movement, balance, and leverage, practitioners of judo, a centuries-old martial art, learn to overcome more... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
increased visibility in the public arena. Yet organizational research has lagged behind in recognizing and studying this category of organizational members. This article offers a critical review of this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
the hum and clunk as blackboards rumble into position, the urgent tap-tap-tapping of chalk as an important point is recorded by the instructor. I see how the professor’s body language and a student’s tone... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne