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- 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28
PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when Yoffie began a three-year effort to update an HBS elective course on strategy development in... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
still be stymied if they try to consider every single laptop on the market. (In the article, Norton and Ariely cite a study by social psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper, who showed that grocery store shoppers who were offered... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
whose value proposition is based on heritage—in this case “achievements for the benefit of mankind” (derived directly from Alfred Nobel’s will). It is also defined as a “networked brand,” one where four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
no legal duty to protect or serve the companies whose shares they own; they are shielded by the doctrine of limited liability from legal responsibility for those companies’ debts and misdeeds; they may buy and sell shares without... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
of brilliance, raining down like manna from some deity of inspiration. Teaching people how to be creative, on the other hand, is like teaching them how to be tall—that is, impossible. These days, as global competition intensifies, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
that mature on the same date. Franey must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of his fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes considerable detail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29
Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the scene, which had seemingly possessed all that was needed for a successful rescue. Yet they failed to save anybody. Drawing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found supportive evidence for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance on cardiovascular patients (positive spillovers) and 2) whether the marginal benefit of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
our Classmates in an effort to elevate this message: “On behalf of your Black classmates: we’re not okay, and you shouldn’t be either”. The letters are meant to remove the onus too often placed on Black students to discuss and teach... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
monopsony implies that wage changes have small effects on profits so that employer altruism affects wages as well. Even selfish firms act altruistically if workers punish firms that fail to do so. If the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
consumption—is higher. In representative democracies, the consumer has to live with the majority decision. That also dampens enthusiasm. Not so in commerce. You can buy or own whichever brand, or suite of brands, you wish. In U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch