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  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

responsibility, HBS has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby's rich account reveals the surprising role of silence in HBS's process of codifying morals and values. As he describes, specifics are often left unspoken; for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

agents, imitation or substitution by third parties, and the withdrawal of IP by agents or third-party owners. For each threat, we consider the impact of modularity in the presence or absence of an effective legal system. The models permit us to identify View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

strategy—downstream integration, specifically buying up feed companies—which marked a stark departure from the company’s longtime emphasis on organic growth. The decision to buy feed companies had been controversial within Alltech: feed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological evidence links specific... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Customers of a financial intermediary, in contrast, provide financing in exchange for a specific set of services and do not want the fulfillment of these services to be contingent on the credit risk of the intermediary, even when they are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

with a university to develop an accredited program, the firm decided it would be better off developing the program itself, with the help of an outside consultant who had done something similar at his previous employer, in order to make sure the programs were View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

I am not sure that they've learned all that they should learn from the experiences of the 1990s. Since I finished the book, I've also been involved in two specific renegotiations of foreign investment agreements in another part of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

feedback. Specifically, providing relative performance feedback improves the mean performance of participants compensated under an individual incentive scheme regardless of the precision or specific content of the feedback. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

which operates through a logic of embeddedness. We examine how the effect of joint dependence on performance is mediated by specific elements of embeddedness: joint action, trust, and the quality and scope of information exchange. Results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

did not achieve its launch targets.1 They realized that a reason for the initial failure was that the company had used an existing channel. This channel was well suited to take another product—the Rohm and Haas 886 liquid biocide—to a View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

effectiveness because people were not accountable to each other for progress, did not have shared understanding of their work, and faced interpersonal risks when reaching out to other roles. The redesign introduced new mesolevel structures that bounded a set of roles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

than department-level-performance measures; (2) internal supply department routines that respond to specific patients' needs rather than to predetermined stocking routines; (3) knowledge that is necessary for efficient handoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

this specific institutional framework. The analysis shows that up to 17% of the independents' employment decline between 1998 and 2004 can be attributed to the regulatory reform. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

of industry applications and geographic locations in the 1990s, and most recently to infrastructure finance in the 2000s. The third section provides a statistical overview of project-financed investment over the last five years (2005 to 2009) and looks at industry,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

can't be taught in a classroom, he contends. Mihnea Moldoveanu (DBA '97) of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management maintains that the MBA is in crisis "because it selects for and cultivates traits and skills [tied to View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

identities, specifically previously enacted ones, constitute potent incentives for inducing efforts or actions. People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates Authors:Jeana H. Frost, Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Effectiveness By: Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

http://hbr.org/product/infection-control-at-massachusetts-general-hospital/an/614044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-042 Ministry of Supply: Will Professionals Demand Its Performance? Ministry of Supply is an entrepreneurial venture in the apparel sector. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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