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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

more localized products coupled with licensing agreements linked to specific movie franchises might be an option, but an expensive one. The company also had to consider that "diminishing play time and the threat of a disruptive View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

mixed expertise teams in which members must work together across knowledge boundaries to accomplish challenging goals will be more likely to collaborate effectively if each individual member perceives that his or her expert identity, defined broadly to encompass... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Abstract As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

percent viewed the effect as negative. The remaining 30 percent felt that it had no effect. More than two-thirds indicated that DTCA helped educate patients about available treatments, and about the same proportion reported it helped them... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

by using my "apples and barrel" metaphor. We have seen many attempts to explain what happened, and they fall into two broad classes. One puts primary responsibility on a few bad apples and sees the solution as catching them,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

Lincoln Center is mind-boggling in its scope and prestige. Eleven resident organizations in arts and education share the campus: the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

because that won't be a sustainable company. You have to run the best possible company. That's your primary job as a businessman. But in addition you have to take care of the society in which you operate, which enables you to earn that... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the case of Alfred Sloan at General Motors, "the View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason survey respondents consider ESG information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

prosthetic implant purchase prices for primary total knee and hip arthroplasties across providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52299 2016 Envy at Work and in Organizations Envy and Interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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