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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

analysis," Bhide smiles. Another is what he calls "smart arrogance" - "the confidence to believe in your ideas combined with the sense to bail out quickly if new information points in that direction." Yet a third characteristic of a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

1284. Silicon Fen shares many characteristics with Silicon Valley (a leading research university, a large pool of skilled workers, a robust startup environment, and the presence of leading high technology firms), but it also has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged to four View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In particular, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

The Cost of Friendship By: Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

data, 3. drives costs to transactions and orders using specific characteristics of particular orders, 4. can be run monthly to capture the economics of the most recent operations, 5. provides visibility to process efficiencies and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

1993-termed as High Sustainability companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies-termed as Low Sustainability companies. In particular, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

2006 shows that leader characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

chronically underperforming school. The environment in which public school districts operate includes the political and policy context at the city, state, and national level, the funding mechanisms that allocate revenue each year, the collective bargaining arrangements... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

race, one culture, one people is superior to another.” Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318053 Harvard Business School Case 318-090 HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (B) This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and fewer want View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

internalizing what's being taught. What do we need to know in a corporate setting about how we evaluate the people we're trying to teach, and evaluate the teacher as well? DL: I think it's very difficult to evaluate for some of the softer View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

of 2,437 management earnings forecasts, we document an increase in management earnings forecast precision, management earnings forecast accuracy, and managers' tendency to explain earnings forecasts in 1993-1996 relative to 1983-1986. Given that these forecast View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

respect to the characteristics of the institutional environments in which they are embedded. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53432 Fall 2017 Slavic Review Anti-imperialism: The Leninist Legacy and the Fate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Mega-Crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events Abstract Emergency response organizations, as we have argued in earlier writing, must deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

these organizational processes can account for the high clustering and short-path distance between nodes that are characteristic of the endemic small-world network structure. Furthermore, the study shows that the concepts of legitimacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

competitive characteristics on its investment in various type assets, on the profitability of these investments, and on the financial structure of its balance sheet. The case also allows a discussion of (1) the incomplete and lagging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne