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  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and Drug View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the micromechanisms that enable leaders to build dynamic capabilities and, therefore, change-adept organizations. From empirical case studies, we distill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

skeptics, a strategy to build a "winning coalition" behind a deal must thwart determined Iranian blockers who will act to prevent meaningful concessions. After six months of talks, there could easily be positive atmospherics but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

U.S. State Department As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton acted on a long-standing interest in public-private partnerships to elevate and activate an Office of Global Partnerships reporting directly to her. One major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Stable category meanings act as institutions that facilitate market exchange by providing bases for comparison and valuation. Yet little is known about meaning construction in new categories or how meaning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

Science. They wanted to establish management as a science, not just an art. Professions. Professions took knowledge and used it to advance societal interests. Professionals acted in the best interests of the persons they were representing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 21 Nov 2012
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What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

about how easy it will be to enact the conferees' recommendations in the larger academic world. "Our point of view will not be credible unless this group acts to make it credible. It needs to be legitimized as a means to make health care... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 09 Jul 2012
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The Unconscious Executive

going to sleep and improves your memory of the information. This strategy could potentially act as a study aid for students and professionals alike. So far, though, we have only found results for creativity. People were given instructions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2009
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The Return of the Salesman

address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 29 Jul 2002
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Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 11 Jul 2012
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The Future of Boards

distinct from the CEO. Raymond Gilmartin, Merck's former chairman, president, and CEO, makes the case for a lead director who acts as a liaison to the CEO but is the equal of other board members. (Gilmartin is also a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

visible intervention, like the innovation contest, has both benefits and risks. Our findings suggest benefits such as increased engagement with work and community as well as risks such as discontent that could arise if staff suggestions are not View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

lower-skilled participants, consistent with high-skilled workers having a greater chance of winning cash prizes. In addition, the cash incentive acted most acutely by increasing the fraction of subjects who worked more than the minimum.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608062 The U.S. Retirement Savings Market and the Pension Protection Act of 2006 Harvard Business School Note 207-130 Provides an overview of the evolution of the private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Digital Transformation at Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza By late 2017, Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza's CEO was convinced that the company could significantly grow sales and accomplish its aspirations of digital transformation. What was unclear in his mind was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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