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  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

personality characteristic, it is a learned skill. Entrepreneurs try to deal with uncertainty explicitly by running experiments, by not taking risks. An entrepreneur doesn't seek risk; he or she tries to minimize risk. By stressing View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and David Dreyfus Abstract—In this paper, we test a method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures and use our measures to predict the costs of architectural change. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

  Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

built through institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution processes. This shift, I argue, raises epistemic questions of expertise, the relationship of models to real-world outcomes, and methods for bounding disputes over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's new datasets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

  Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the current business going), the past (forget what made the business successful), and the future (create the new... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is lacking. In this paper, we develop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the sixth of six... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven View Details
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

effects, we use experimental methods to demonstrate that participants who imagined shopping with their own bags are more likely to spontaneously consider purchasing chips or dessert items and indicate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Sep 2018
  • News

Moving Pictures

circle, so you have to do a little magic to make it happen.” After creating a structure, Singer says, he delves down into character. It’s a creative process he attributes in part to HBS, where the teaching method has continued relevance... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

Empathy and Understanding Project Week – Clarify Content Week – Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Content Week – Ideate, Part 2: User Values and Behaviors Project Week – Ideate Content Week – Develop: An Experimentation Mindset... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

of Thoracic Surgery Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions By: Stone, J., E. Aveling, M. Frean, M. Shields, C. Wright, F. Gino, T. Sundt, and S.J. Singer Abstract—The importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne