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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Lessons from the Management of Clinical Trials Authors:Robert S.Huckman and Darren E. Zinner Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract For over three decades, the benefits of focus have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the West will fail. To succeed, they need to build trust within the existing structures—and this book shows how it's done Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53925 in press Proceedings of the National Academy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
example, we learn how challenges have been turned into opportunities, and how you can grow successful businesses in turbulent conditions by paying close attention to execution and recruitment of strong... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? A new book by Amy Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds describes the approach of 'big teaming' with a case study View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
brand in a new market when there is lots of competition involves paying attention to every spoke of the strategy wheel, every division of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Weird The field study findings also offer an important message to employees—that productivity can depend largely on how well they manage their managers' attention. "On the manufacturing floor, the workers were trying to manage the View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
Abstract—Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006
This paper examines accountability processes in a nonprofit organization serving immigrants and refugees, with special attention to their impacts on mission-based activities. The research finds that upward accountability requirements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
school model in which students spend significantly more time reading, providing more individualized attention to students and families, addressing the challenge of finding outstanding teachers, and doing so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
F."2 She beat the Las Vegas oddsmakers over-under by eight shots. She won on the publicity scale: Blasted by media attention that would have undone many a new player, she emerged from the relative obscurity View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
and Kagan Tumer Periodical:Applied Economics Research Bulletin (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper 08-064.) Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but they have paid little attention to the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. We propose reach,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Most managers understand at some level the wisdom of the adage, "It's not what you know; it's who you know." Indeed, building the right professional relationships is critical for business success. In China, relationships are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
environmental activist, Hirshberg built Stonyfield Farm, (an organic yogurt maker based in New Hampshire), up from a seven-cow operation into a business that in 2010 had $360 million in annual revenues. The narrative pays particular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
visibility outside its areas of expertise. In their study of these two financial institutions, the authors identified four competencies-trailblazing, toolmaking, teamwork, and translation-that help... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino