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  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

showed leader performance in the summer field training environment is predicted by Big Five extroversion, hardiness, and a trend for social judgment. During the academic period context, leader performance is predicted by mental abilities as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

support the change, and evaluating the change implementation). We examine this relationship using data from 89 clinical managers at the United Kingdom National Health Service who implemented change projects between 2003 and 2004. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

(i.e., information about the files)   Fast downloads   Works well with iPod   We built an economic model to improve our understanding of how both forms of digital distribution interact. While this methodology restricts somewhat the scope... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Class Notes Extra

There was almost a riot.” After observing her first successful open-heart surgery and the emotional post-operative meeting between the doctor and the baby's grateful parents, McIntosh, who speaks Russian and has a master's degree in public View Details
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

the company faces a number of challenges, including generic drugs, patent infringements in developing countries, and pricing pressure from governments and health insurers in the United States. Given these challenges, Novartis must decide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

his knitting and ended up doing quite well in the end. But I think that's where FOMO really hits the business community. So you see this over and over and over again with economic bubbles going back to the dawn of time. So the book really... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the first Sarofim-Rock incumbent. (Later, the Classes of 1954, 1960, and 1961 would also fund chairs in entrepreneurship.) Stevenson has completely reworked the Starting New Ventures course into today's elective course Entrepreneurial Management, writing View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/814096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-035 RedBrick Health: How to Fatten the Company That Slims... The case describes this health and wellness service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • News

Good Investments

fundamental issues.” —Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) After founding a microfinance investment fund called the Dignity Fund in 2005 with Elizabeth Collet Funk (MBA 1996), she started Elevar in 2008, widening the investment scope to include housing, education, and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

of technology. It reviews some opportunities for innovation that will solve the pain points and bottlenecks facing the system and outlines high-priority policy areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

distracted, overburdened workers on track and maintains nimbleness during a time of rapid change. Frequent check-ins are useful for everything from employee mental wellness to market research. "Good managers improve their team members’... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

test,” which would reveal the longer-term health of the country’s largest banks. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-013 Fishbowl Fishbowl is a social media app that allows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel