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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
closely matched how a startup is formed, and two, students quickly realized it didn't solve all of their problems. If you are in a team and somebody is not pulling their weight, are you more likely to call them out if you don't know them... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
indicated that he believed that another doubling in size was feasible, but it would probably take a major acquisition to do so. And JCDecaux faced more pressing short-term issues. The contract for London bus shelters that the company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
problems associated with the profit measures by directing managerial attention to activities that have longer-term consequences on firm performance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
foster organizations' normative motivations to self-regulate without compromising deterrence. We find that facilities with a demonstrated commitment to compliance are more likely to institutionalize self-regulation. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
Skilled improvisational musicians practice alone and with others for hours every day, year after year—notes, scales, chords, and progressions. After all of this practice comes a performance, and an improvisation begins. For musicians and... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
value to users? (3) How can I build credibility with customers? (4) How should I charge users? (5) Should my platform be compatible with legacy systems? Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
However, those lofty hopes were quickly dashed when Afrezza generated lackluster first-year sales, driving Sanofi to terminate its short-lived contract with MannKind in January 2016. MannKind's management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Summing Up Fine Coupling of People: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Manufacturers and distributors are succeeding in various approaches — including postponement, computer-aided manufacture, robotics, rapid response, positive tracking, and modularization — to fine-couple... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
experience, those in early careers don't yet carry with them other strong career imprints, making it relatively easy to cultivate a "new" organizational career imprint. In addition, career imprinting is likely stronger when... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
order preservation, then all (pure strategy) Nash equilibria induce equal division. Next, we consider division rules satisfying efficiency, equal treatment of equals, and claims monotonicity. For claim games with at most three agents,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
think, “How can we help each other?” You’d expect someone like this to be very transactional, with a very high sensitivity to perception of current events, with a very high sensitivity to perceived financial... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
hospitals. Hospitals are responding by consolidating and signing up doctors as employees rather than entrepreneurs with their own businesses. Companies, on behalf of their employees, are contracting View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"And I would take our group of twenty-two here and match them up against anybody in the industry." Employees' Award-winning Ideas At Aetna, the Hartford, CT-based insurer, Rich Schlichting, a customer reporting and business... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
search costs to locate discounted items. Our results show that increasing search frictions can be used as a self-selecting price discrimination tool to match high discounts with price-sensitive consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each... View Details