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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Castro. The country’s new president—Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first non-Castro leader since the revolution in 1959—looks on, waving at the masses processing through Revolution Square, with his predecessor, 86-year-old Raúl Castro, by his... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more- and less-homogeneous workplaces.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
nature of the social relationships within the site-an intervention we interpret as changing the relational contracts in place-to ask whether changing relational contracts alone has an effect on performance. We present some evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control over the internal View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
cloud. Not long thereafter, Microsoft introduced a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing. (In addition to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
framework for an economy. CCA provides a natural framework for analysis of mismatches between an entity's assets and liabilities, such as currency and maturity mismatches on balance sheets. Policies or actions that reduce these mismatches... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
instituting processes that encourage creativity and new ideas. At 3M, for example, the "15 percent rule" allows professionals to spend up to 15 percent of their time on independent projects of their own choosing. As intrapreneurship... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deteriorated under Saddam, so too did operational knowledge and skills, personified in the human capital destroyed in Iraq’s several wars or stifled by Saddam’s repression. But in some respects, Iraq is lucky. It has immense resources — oil, View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
and even though the entrepreneur holds all of the market power in the model. Furthermore, although perfectly competitive investors expect zero alpha in equilibrium, the nature of the three-way interaction results in a correlation between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
health, the process is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami. That's why integrated medical data has now become a major goal of health care reform. Integrating patient records, such as physicians' notes, diagnoses, medical device... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Australia, charges customers $5 for "just looking," refunding the fee if an item is purchased. "The problem with this approach is that it's trying to build a dam around your consumers and force them to do something they are not naturally... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that I think nobody I know really understood," Light said. To illustrate his point about the interlocking nature of housing and the U.S. financial system, Light said that for decades... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
auction design or market design and stuff like that, the fact that I wasn’t just a completely nerdy academic I also had some connection by having gone to a business school. And, I can sort of talk to businessmen in their language if I... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
also showed the right path to take. All this he did in a very natural and unassuming way, never making one feel that she had somehow missed the obvious but gently leading into a depth of understanding that no amount of lecturing could... View Details