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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
completely aligned with managerial needs. Therefore, our goal is to draw on previous research and current practice to provide insights on managing retention and identify areas for future research. This examination leads us to advocate a broad View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
provides an insider's perspective on what has made it so effective. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/sustainability-in-the-boardroom/ar/1 Working Papers Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Publication:Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, Inc., 2007 Abstract This set of insightful papers demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
look ahead to the post-COVID era, it will be important to keep this perspective in mind as the problem of income inequality will almost certainly worsen. Lagace: Your book describes the work of the Committee for Economic Development (CED)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term investment returns. Moreover, they analyze the forces at work in markets around the world, which are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
something we like to see happen, but few really want to know how the cadaver was procured," he says. In "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States," Anteby and research... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day exchange of View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation scenarios that are characterized by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments? By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The literature on the competitiveness of locations has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
and services (cell phones, for example), or creating jobs—that's where the goals of poverty reduction and economic profit can align. Q: One of the interesting perspectives you offer is that the global poor are not only potential consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
human nature and organizations and performance,” Iansiti says. “The case shows that in any kind of environment, you’ve got to know your stuff. So from this perspective you can’t go ahead and accuse somebody of deflating a football without... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
there's the risk of being exposed." Foster recounted an anecdote that put Twitter in perspective for him. "I put a Gandhi quote on there one, and someone responded, ['F**k] Gandhi,'" he said. "That's when I stop taking... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
perspectives of investors, lenders, and suppliers and shows that inventory turns, a commonly used metric to identify excess inventory, has limitations that reduce its utility for all these stakeholders. This paper presents a new metric,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
their differences with their bosses, they may be fired, but that's not my experience. If you raise topics politely, explain your perspective on the issues, and stay away from personal attacks, I think most bosses will respond positively.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
made. Three books, two just out, provide provocative perspectives on the challenge. The first, by Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't, argues that methods for more accurate predictions are on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
been at a tobacco company. But in fact, at American Express, where he had a significant run, he was running the largest customer for computers perhaps in the world, the American Express travel business. And it was based on that understanding, from a customer's View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
nonprofits to focus on their organizations and strategies, not just the social value their organization creates. Even more importantly, nonprofits are beginning to look at ways to produce measurable proof that what they do works. As a former HBS professor, Bradach was... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
provided by management. But on certain Gordian issues—a bet-the-company merger decision, say, or a complex product-liability concern—insight from an external perspective could be very useful. Although circumstances requiring such experts... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
limited amount of research in the organizational domain, we focus on demonstrating how an implicit affect perspective might alter or extend theoretical perspectives about a variety of organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace