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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
of the "unknowable" threat which the world faces from global warming. Finally, if you have the time, you might look at the online Forbes comments section as well as the HBS Working Knowledge comments section at the bottom of the article.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
when he said that George Gilder correctly defines knowledge and entrepreneurship as the true driving forces of capitalism. "Airbnb and like companies are accelerating capitalism, not replacing it." As Hugh Quick put it,... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
The analysis finds no impact of financial incentives on learning but significant effects of both goal setting and counseling on real financial outcomes. These results identify important complements to financial education that can bridge the gap between financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
learning challenges presented by rapid knowledge growth, uncertainty, and complexity in dynamic settings. We test whether there are additional performance benefits to using deliberate learning activities and whether the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
Council, was just published in the Journal of Political Economy. He recently met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss his new case and its implications for reinterpreting FDI. Martha Lagace: How does South Africa challenge conventional... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
conditions in the world today: the declining capabilities of government, the massive size and increasing sophistication of the global financial markets, and the impacts of new technologies that leapfrog large centralized projects and put usable View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
activity works to align the organization around one set of goals, top-down, bottom-up, and "middle-out." By necessity, planning is a process that involves many people and empowers those closest to the knowledge and the work. Q:... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
processes. First, experts can change their knowledge from personally communicable, tacit knowledge into tool-generated, highly communicable knowledge. The second interdependent movement involves how experts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
concentrated among firms with high growth opportunities or firms confronting adverse circumstances, consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
exploratory units to scale. We also contribute to the strategy literature by showing the importance of multi-level exchange relationships, complementary resources, time effects, and identity dynamics for corporate decisions on whether,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
of Knowledge database, which includes articles from MEDLINE, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index. Study design. We conducted a systematic review of articles published before January 2010 to identify survey... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ knowledge of which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman