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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen Abstract— We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Bill, thank you very much for joining me today. Bill: Brian, it's pleasure. Thank you. Brian: You can find this case along with thousands of other in the HBS case collection at hbr.org. I'm Brian Kenny you host and you've been listening... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
have been impossible to create only a few years before. However, in 2014, both Apple and Google announced features in their new mobile operating systems that collected and displayed output from various health-wearables (like heart-rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715411-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-423 Discovery Limited Discovery Limited is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
of Winfrey and Harpo was bigger than Koehn's original vision. "I realized two years into the case-writing process that it's about more than serving a particular set of consumer needs of a given moment." "It is also a story of leadership and View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
it seems to be about simpler values. Like the upper-middle-class living room featured in sitcoms, many depictions of a simple life today cost more than you might think. Our collective fixation on "the best" and what the best... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
(mHealth) used networked devices to distribute or collect medical information from patients and/or medical personnel. Given its low cost and broad reach, many wondered if and how mHealth could help solve the global health care crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
collection of data, engage more deeply and effectively with all their stakeholders, and lower reputational risk through a high level of transparency. Given the importance of sustainability, I think companies have an ethical obligation to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
actually contrary to previous research. Readings in Modern Marketing Author:John A. Quelch Publication:Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006 Abstract Readings in Modern Marketing is a collection of Quelch's highly-praised scholarly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
situation; rearranging moves, which reconfigure the assets or the parties or both; and shut-down moves, which prematurely cut off same-side-of-the-table competition. When I was a consultant at McKinsey in the early 1990s, we used the term MECE—"mutually exclusive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
decisions about the world with large amounts of uncertainty. And the second big idea has to do with making experiments." In other words, he has defined the new venture as an experiment, fueled by increments of funding, the purpose of each of which is to buy the... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Aug 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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