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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
interests of general voters. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment, media are able to inform passive voters on politically relevant issues. To show the impact this information has on legislative outcomes, we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Management as a Technology? By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We see the interviews and the associated resources collected with them as helping to provide the resources to enable future scholars to write the business history of this era. The interviews are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
summarized in a critique by [Harvard economist] Martin Feldstein, "all property and individual abilities should be regarded as society's common resource." Instead, Equal Sacrifice assumes individuals have the first claim to their output, and that they voluntarily agree... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
states to collect export taxes to finance expenditures, rendered states with higher windfall tax revenues from the export of commodities to spend more on education per capita. Second, we prove that colonial institutions constrained the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
asked to refrain from discussing the diary content with colleagues.) By the end of the study, Amabile and Kramer had collected nearly 12,000 entries, what she describes as a “wonderful treasure trove of data.” "We have a window into... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
gerontocracy. What if John Hartford had had a son who was bound and determined that he could post a better record at the company than his father did? That is what happened at IBM. Thomas J. Watson Sr. had built IBM from a motley View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
repertory theater. Shannon O'Connell noted that our collection of field cases on learning to become a successful functional manager had the potential to be organized into an executive's "hero's journey." This set off a process:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Eigenfactor scores are readily computed for collectives such as departments or institutions. We show that a collective's Eigenfactor score can be computed either by summing the Eigenfactor scores of its members or by working directly with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This book is a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
theoretical frameworks arrived at via in-class discussion; 3) identification of a set of core issues vital to practice that collectively approximate IS management as a business discipline; and 4) design for student engagement, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
described: [B]ecause we are starting fresh, we don't have the collective memory of mistakes. [B]ecause India is booming, because our balance sheet is strong, people don't see risk in the same way they would do if they were working in [a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Business School Case 719-417 National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer After learning that most defaults were due to health, job, or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
design be guided too much by customers’ wants and needs, using off-price distribution channels, and partnering with a mass merchant on a shared collection (e.g., Target and H&M collaborations). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
working on NLNS for more than three months after the contest," he adds, noting that he'd already accepted an offer from McKinsey. Yet the team received overwhelmingly positive verbal feedback from some judges and offers of funding. "We need to do this work now," is how... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the collective interest levels of the angels can lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding is positively correlated with higher survival, additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne