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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
"competent" leader you must develop the necessary knowledge and skills to accomplish your mission. However, technical competence is not enough. To be an effective leader you must also have "character"— the BE component... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
research team, I felt like a distinctive person." These were meant to measure what the researchers call "authentic self-expression." Lab participants in the individuality group reported higher levels of authentic... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
excitement. Could a pre-performance ritual also affect anxiety levels? In their resulting collaboration they asked participants to sing karaoke, and measured the heart rate and performance skill of two separate groups—one of which just... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
it had taken over 10 years and thousands of hours of meetings. Issues such as the continued availability of funding and leadership turnover still threatened the effectiveness of the collaboration, and the economic recession would almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric commons dilemma. Results supported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers, and excessive adoption of the intermediary's services. Competition among intermediaries intensifies these problems, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
working hard didn't increase their number of hours; and lower-skilled workers didn't work more at all. The application of formal cash incentives worked in a different way than the sorting effect. The absolute effect of cash incentives was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
graduate student at Brigham Young University in 1974, DeLong studied organizational behavior under Stephen Covey (MBA 1957), who would go on to publish The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “I focused as much on his teaching... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
schools such as Stanford, Columbia, Babson and UCal Berkeley, traveling more than 40,000 miles into 28 cities and towns to work with 50 entrepreneurs across the heart of America. “We have three measures of success,” Gerald... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic is restructuring the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the teams View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
for HBS’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, where she is leveraging her platform and skills to drive systemic change that survives her time as a student. She said, “I envision a legacy in which my success is measured beyond my... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
reaching a high of $243 amidst much media fanfare. But like many early dot-com success stories, Perry, who has been called a founding father of the business-to-business online marketplace, has experienced the effects of gravity lately.... View Details