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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has shown how local clubs and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have the courage to confront difficult truths. Because most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
neglect the unit managers’ knowledge about which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized hiring to centralized hiring at our research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
leader David Yarnold who was brought in by the board in 2010. Under Yarnold's leadership the organization went through two strategic plans (2012–2016 and 2016–2020) and brought about many changes. At the start of 2017, Yarnold declared his goal of making Audubon the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
element, the note lists questions that an entrepreneur must address when evaluating an early-stage opportunity. The note explores in greater depth several business-model issues that are especially relevant to entrepreneurial ventures, including the impact of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we set a new View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select employees (who in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of new technologies of the highest and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
number of self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender executives gained 733 percent. Another benefit: "By deliberately seeing ways to more effectively reach a broader range of customers, IBM has seen significant... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
Piskorski Abstract This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power and those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by receiving numerous exchanges from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
these social leaders viewed those advantages as a vehicle for contributing to solutions of certain social problems. According to Juan Carr, founder of the Solidarity Network (Red Solidaria, hence RS), the institution's mission "to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
and strategy, including direct and indirect investments, fund manager selection, total returns, sourcing and due diligence of direct investments, and other aspects. The case explores a specific investment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
what employees can do to resist them. As she states in a recent column in Harvard Business Review, "The best cure for horrible bosses is wonderful colleagues." Bad boss behavior #1: failure to communicate. At any level of management, it's important that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
experience similar pressure from an executive directive in any industry, he said. "We have to face tradeoffs when we design and execute. There are different ways to approach the same problem," he said. Several participants in... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51538 July–August 2016 European Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel