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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Empowerment By: Huckman, Robert S., and Mark A. Kelley M.D. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45889 Working Papers Managers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
way to look at hedge funds is as the pure active side of the money management industry. Their growth would then be explained as the other side of the growth in indexing: All part of the same process of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
creative and inspired. I’ve been conducting research on the psychology of nostalgia for almost 20 years. Based on what I’ve learned, I believe managers can use the power of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
from tech giants Tencent (China) and Paytm (India) along with speakers active in Africa as well as Latin America, thus offering a true worldview of the technology and start-up... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
opportunity-framed perspective, there is generally an executive who acts as an integrator, actively managing the tensions between the parent and the new venture. At Teradyne,... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Ponzetto Abstract—Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
graduate of the General Management Program, an intensive seven-week Executive Education curriculum at Harvard Business School. On April 22, beaming in from space via satellite feed, he spent half an hour addressing a packed audience of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
sustainability. If they don't develop science based targets to approach emissions reductions they may face threats from activist investors or a higher cost of capital. Business leaders thus have been View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne