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- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
delayed his journey home while he raced through the Ph.D. program in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota in just two years. His dissertation on the soybean industry reflected the global perspective that became a constant... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
acquisition. Each startup was required to have at least one academic founder and one existing patent, which lowered the number of companies in the study to a total of 308, involving more than 500 scholars. Roche and Boudou measured how closely the scope of the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
government should regulate or encourage commerce will be a central debate. How does your research help us think about this question? A: History is a mirror that is both reflecting and distorting, and can very seldom offer us easy answers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
information environment relating to IFRS adoption that is more likely to reflect changes in comparability versus information quality. If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability across firms, we predict this should reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
York family and practiced estate law in New York City. In his spare time, he wrote scores of well-regarded novels and short stories about characters who inevitably reflected the men and women—successful lawyers, bankers, and business... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
conversational blindness occurs in part because real-world conversations occur as a continuous ebb and flow, leaving little time for people to reflect on how every statement links to each previous statement. Q: Does conversational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
they best be addressed by individuals free to choose, communities (represented by governments) interested in influencing choice, or a combination of both? What do you think? Original Article With the death of John Kenneth Galbraith on April 29, it is perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Harris on immigration The findings reflect the constantly changing state of politics and voter behavior. In a separate piece of new research, Pons considers the array of voter participation barriers that have changed in recent years,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
Improve an Organization’s Culture? Here’s a succinct response from Juan E. Gomez Inciso reflecting many of the responses to the question: “It takes what it takes, given the circumstances and people involved,” especially quality of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Business School Case 308-072 As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
participants sense firsthand the types of difficulties they're likely to confront when operating and marketing among divergent economies. The upcoming PGL launches a series of HBS initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region and other parts of the globe that View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
that occurs when group members reflect seems integral to the creative process." Sometimes, literally sleeping on an idea —perhaps dreaming about it — is enough to provide the necessary perspective and get a group moving from... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
appeared to be growing, the new Super 8 reflected the culture and identity of a firm originally rooted in film and consumer products. Sentiment aside, Clarke needed to decide if the new Super 8 fit into the company’s overall strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
policy may reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating towards low dividend paying firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the interests of their institutional shareholders. Evidence is provided that both effects are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old policies had... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
employees, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can promote operational flexibility, employee engagement, and tight strategic alignment. Groysberg and Slind have identified four elements of organizational conversation that reflect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
fail to focus on a variety of situation-specific (or customer account-specific) factors. We also urge vendors to go beyond just a descriptive tact focusing on the means of these variables, and to study their impact on response coefficients that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne