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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
to 2010 and how these have changed over time. The analysis finds pervasive deconcentration in virtually every area related to ICT, but it can explain only a small part of this trend. Deconcentration happens despite the role of lateral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
quantitatively larger in magnitude than direct effects. The results corroborate the importance of network effects in quantifying the real effects of credit shocks and show that real effects vary during booms and busts. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book offers a path-breaking historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
of the paradigm, and extension of the paradigm to the expert-focused organizations that have grown in importance since the paradigm was first developed. This paper answers this call by integrating inductive methods with quantitative View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Earnings Announcements Authors: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract We consider measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
this would have a further advantage for the team. The field-based research reported here is derived largely from analysis of team experiences with five principal Japanese baseball stars-Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Daisuke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
implicitly follow these two stages. We have categorized these approaches into a 3x3 matrix, which suggests three different approaches for stage-one demand estimation (decision calculus, experiments and econometric methods), and three different methods for stage-two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other computer-generated data tools.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
effectively. But it’s not about gaming the system, emphasizes Huang—startups need to make sure that they have both the quantitative analysis to back up their idea and the “soft” factors that can appeal to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne