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  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-088 John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World By the late nineteenth century, scale and managerial hierarchies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019
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'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2014 (Revised May 2014)
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China Vanke (A-1)

By: Lynn S. Paine, John Macomber and Keith Chi-ho Wong
As China's largest homebuilder, China Vanke Co. Ltd. (Vanke) was facing an industry downturn sparked by strong government intervention. Faced with falling prices, Vanke's president must decide whether to keep the company's pricing and product positioning intact, and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; China; Green Building; Sustainable Development; Business Government Relations; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Urban Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Safety; Real Estate Industry; China
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  • 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

  PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract The long-standing argument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

divisions between the North and the South. Document three is excerpted from Whig Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey's six-hour speech to Congress opposing Indian removal. Document four is excerpted from a speech by Senator View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically. They maintain that people would benefit if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School

appointed by President Obama to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Deborah Wright MBA 1984 Deborah... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable 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
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Emergency Medicine

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Brian J. Yun, Anand M. Prabhakar, Jonathan Warsh, John Brennan, Kyle E. Dempsey and Ali S. Raja
Value in emergency medicine is determined by both patient-important outcomes and the costs associated with achieving them. However, measuring true costs is challenging. Without an understanding of costs, emergency department (ED) leaders will be unable to determine... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Emergency Room; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Barriers to Action Author:A. Hoffman and M. H. Bazerman Publication:In Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic, edited by S. Sharma, M. Starik and B. Husted. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 Abstract At its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

as a clean and green country may have been the major constraint. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51580 Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974) By: Casadesus-Masanell,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel