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  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

added: “China has surplus trade with the world and the US has a deficit trade balance As such, the US lost the race several years ago.” In the same tone, Salvatore posed a question for us: “Leadership in global trade is as fluid as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

to have had as much resonance among readers as it did among CEOs who made it a summer reading favorite. Perhaps others agreed with Mary L, who commented that, “Today’s tech enabled networks pose no greater threat than any other networks... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

development in more than 20 countries in 1900 and 1913. The evidence presented does not yield robust results that can sustain the hypothesis of persistence effects of legal origin, but it is not powerful enough to reject it either. Then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

CCP relied on the manipulation and distribution of the national land supply either to stimulate economic growth or to rein in an overheating economy. China’s land institutions, therefore, share “complementarities” with fiscal and financial institutions and benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

that the open-end and regulatory features that a mutual fund poses to many successful strategies implemented in other contexts. In addition, it gives students the ability to calculate and interpret various horizons of correlations between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Publications "From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Chap. 13 in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract Adverse drug reactions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may provide a powerful method for quality improvement. Methods: The authors reviewed performance data from all bilateral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

Treasury has proposed that systemic risks be monitored by a newly formed Financial Services Oversight Council, with the Fed becoming the primary regulator of all institutions posing such risks. I disagree with making the Fed the primary... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709426 The Power to Persuade, Abridged Harvard Business School Note 809-037 This note develops and explains a five-part framework for persuading others to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is powerful-so View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

customers are habitually more satisfied than others. An empirical investigation of the satisfaction of 149,389 customers surveyed by J.D. Power and Associates over a five-year period provides evidence that these customer-level differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

as pure profit maximizers, assuming that market forces alone will ensure that farmers benefit. Even when e-intermediation benefits farmers, it is insufficient to mitigate the negative effects of supply fragmentation, suggesting that for farmers, market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to selected competitors. Asks what Google... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, and Meghan Busse and Florian Zettelmeyer, both professors at Northwestern University. Somewhere, a radiator leaks For the study, “mystery shoppers” posing as consumers contacted... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

years. Acknowledging that there is "no cookie-cutter formula" for successful discussion teaching, he nevertheless maintained that all HBS teachers need "to be able to pose questions to students, listen carefully to their... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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