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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads to higher funding from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the firm was good at enabled it to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
a company to develop new productivity software was a complete non-starter. No sane VC would or should fund a venture to compete with the Microsoft monopoly." Even though his project is in the early stages, over 33,000 people... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
ordinary citizens' income was cut by a third, vulnerable groups suffered. But more important, fifteen years later, the economy continues to decay, inflation is rampant, and many people continue to suffer.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
particular, continuation and pruning decisions (i.e., series renewals and cancellations). Finally, can be used to facilitate an assessment of challenges and opportunities in developing sustainable businesses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
product development in firms and communities, co-wrote the case with former HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi to encourage further exploration of the benefits and tactics of open-data approaches. “ All agencies will have issues,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Alexander, and Amitabh Chandra Abstract—Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
Developed in 2006, the Value-Based Health Care Delivery strategy includes a seven-part agenda to restructure health care. Part one calls for creating "integrated practice units," each organized around a particular medical... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
attention to sunk costs. We go to plays or concerts that, in retrospect, we'd rather not go to simply because we have a $50 ticket in the pocket. Similarly, one of my colleagues describes a person who pays $300 to join a tennis club, only to come down with tennis... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for teaching excellence, Wasserman View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
history of the republic is off to a rockier start. What I teach my students is that great leaders—like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—are fast learners, and they continue to invest in learning throughout their careers. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
and provocative, this book is an essential resource for all teams seeking to strengthen their innovative prowess. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/the-innovator-s-dna-mastering-the-five-skills-of-d/an/14946-HBK-ENG?referral=00215&cm_mmc=email-_-news View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of developing its third set of 10‐year goals, with the aim of producing a plan that will ensure the viability of the company 50 years from now. With this end in mind, Dow's leaders understand their obligation to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
and challenges created by digital technology and describe some of the most pressing policy issues. As digital technologies continue to gain in momentum and importance, it has become clear that digitization has features that do not fit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne