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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
treated accordingly, his swelling decreased, and soon after Kevin was discharged. For a couple of years now, IBMers have told this story as a way to highlight Watson’s strengths, that if Watson were utilized it would have shown the doctors the View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
noticed that whenever I say something in a meeting, you say one of these three phrases, but when other people say things, you say positive phrases. I feel like the rate of my good ideas to bad ideas is probably the same as those people’s.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
it hit us that all these heroic, wonderful people who had rushed back to the WTC were probably dead." Eventually, they found a janitor who was able to lead them to safety, as they stumbled through the darkness of some basement tunnels... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
It probably won't shock you that the most popular YouTube video in the past month was "Gentleman," the latest hit from South Korean rapper PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" is the most-watched video of all time. More surprising: among the other... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to co-opt them. This cooptation increases the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
tells us is that the findings regarding the differences in the patterns of trust in Chinese versus American networks are not due solely to Chinese managers having more kin or family members in their networks. Rather, Chinese managers View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
acknowledgement of that. And that took probably a year to two. We still worked through that, but really almost a couple of years to lay that new foundation of trust. And then the other part was just proving it, was having Reddit be safe... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole. "He said we should be doing something like it ourselves," Keen recalls, "and I brought up what Deward had said, and asked if he thought big ag had our Cherokee seeds and what we should do about it. "His answer... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
specifically, to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won’t help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
orchestra’s longest-serving members, his tenure extending to the group’s previous iteration as the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. When that orchestra went bankrupt in 1991, felled by poor management, the musicians decided they probably... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
the probability that an individual declares bankruptcy, experiences a foreclosure, or is delinquent on a loan. Further results and a simple calibration suggest the result is driven by changes in savings or investment behavior, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
well and maintains a healthy relationship with the environment has a higher probability of being economically sustainable," a Santander executive observed. Can money be made while saving the earth? Can the private sector accomplish what... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
beauty, dignity, and value to architectural design. I was really looking to have a design that was not only transformational in terms of innovation, creativity, design, but also something that resonates back to the community. And I knew it had to be something... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the ship apart and putting it back together again. It should be getting under way again in the spring, probably without me. I think I’ll be transferring to a shore station next. (JH, ed.) A former ambassador to the Netherlands and a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
force must be hired and trained every four years or so,” says Cespedes. “Any talk about talent management that ignores this aspect of the business is probably just talk.” The challenge is compounded because in contrast to hiring for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
dollar or one quarter. The practice of making offers at round price-per-share levels is associated with the following unfavorable outcomes for the bidder: (1) higher purchase price for target shares, (2) lower probability to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
require that the counterparts in the transaction expect each other to perform their responsibility even in the absence of legal enforcement. In summary, the recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis. They View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from investment syndicates, affects its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne