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- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United States and to "build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
business: customers, products, value propositions, the capabilities and advantages any player brings that will allow the plans to meet success. And while businesses have always used a "platform" of technology of one kind or another to deliver View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in the year and an in depth 720... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life. Although most of us grow up as products of our families, we are also heavily influenced by the social norms manifested... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
hampering productivity and significantly impacting physician well-being. In the United States, physicians spend between 34 and 55 percent of their workday compiling clinical documentation and reviewing EMRs.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
very clear, very passionate about it, "We have all kinds of information from iPhones about you. We would never look at it. And anyone who does look at it is terminated." So a whole different point of view that Apple has. Now, you could argue Apple is selling... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
about separating problem definition and solution assessment from the solving phase.” It tells how 34 contestants competing anonymously online over 10 weeks reviewed almost 78,000 images and submitted 45... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
review research on the necessary precursors for interpersonal synchrony: the ability to detect a mind and resonate with its outputs. Further, we describe potential mechanisms for the development of synchrony between two minds. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are conventionally pre-determined by marketers: product characteristics,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross