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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
when one has reached a certain age or level of expertise. Concert pianists and Wimbledon champions draw on the expertise of master teachers to guide their practice sessions. One forty-six-year-old senior vice president at Adobe Systems... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements, nonconvergence problems, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
existed, but by 1939, there were over 88,000. Approximately half were joint stock firms, and these outperformed limited and unlimited partnerships on a return on equity basis, while also accounting for most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
MaterialsNote on Direct Selling in Developing Economies Michael Chu and Joel SegreHarvard Business School Case 310-068 Informal and formal direct selling play a particularly important role in developing countries characterized by markets with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
social programs or services, but with limited formal mechanisms for central control and few prescribed interactions between local sites and the center. Tight affiliates are quite similar to business franchises, where the central... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
by focusing on a more limited question, namely whether a business case be made for acting in an environmentally sustainable way, which I define as acting in any way that reduce a firm's environmental footprint. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
online advertisers, these are poor substitutes.4 The harm to advertisers will be particularly acute for those advertisers that currently advertise on Yahoo for average to obscure search terms—e.g., small businesses selling unusual products, or local businesses selling... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Lauder-Železný saga is notable for several reasons. First, it's a cautionary tale for managers about an expropriation in an emerging market where the value of an entity can be diverted to insiders. In this case, the "tunneling" of the enterprise was... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well-hidden, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
equilibrium resulting in all arbitrators slanting towards being industry friendly. Evidence suggests that limiting the respondents’ and claimants’ inputs over the arbitrator selection process could significantly improve outcomes for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
having two buildings built with significant leaning away from vertical. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209052 Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209094 Creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne