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- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
a book boosted sales, presumably by drawing the attention of consumers. Not so at colleges, where apparently bad news is not good for business. “Even when it’s a decision as big as college choice, decision makers have a limited amount of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery to the center of the University’s campus. Is that going to change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
licensee — attracted the attention of Bausch & Lomb, which bought the company. To prepare her for a management position, Bausch & Lomb sent Ross to HBS’s Program for Management Development. She remembers quickly feeling at home in the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
lack of experimentation by paying more attention to and learning more from each experiment. The researchers found strong learning effects among employees in settings where they were monitored by their bosses somewhat loosely. In settings... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role of regional governments. It is motivated by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
critical outputs. Managers use this information to communicate goals up, down, and across their organizations and later to monitor performance against those goals. Using information requires choices about what to monitor and measure. Managers can focus their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
the effect of setbacks was two to three times stronger. "That's a common finding in psychology—that negative events and negative things tend to get people's attention more and tend to have a stronger impact on people's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
landscape for more than half a century, are too familiar to cause worry. But the rapid growth of these funds in recent years and their role in a few high-profile transactions have called attention to them and inflamed public anxieties.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
report on the social value they are creating for the poor. In conclusion, companies should not look to the poor merely to exploit their untapped purchasing power or dip into low-cost labor pools. Over the long term, such a cursory and extractive approach will draw the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
making certain types of public risk management less necessary. How this pans out is something that I plan to pay close attention to in the coming years. Q: Your book seems particularly timely given all the recent debate as to the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
as Vanguard and Schwab, have seen that there is a way to address this segment of the market, and developed similar offerings,” says Viceira. “That’s brought this to the attention of not just millennials who have thousands of dollars to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
for them to sue, perhaps by increasing the cost of bringing cases, or by putting more of the burden of proving actual infringement on plaintiffs. Already, the research has garnered attention from Congress: it was recently cited by Senator... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
public school students in America, how can you provide a more individualized learning experience? If you had an experience with a terrific teacher, you probably remember feeling that that teacher provided you with individual attention and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
successful companies, the stage of the portfolio company (risky early stage versus less-risky later stage), and how much media attention the company had received at the time of investment. Controlling for these factors, they found that... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
high-fiber grain. Sipping coffee to clear his throat, he adjusted the reading glasses he'd begun using last week and couldn't quite get used to, without shifting attention from the editorial he'd just come across in the business section... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
of both direct and indirect subsidies in industries throughout the world, and careful attention must be paid to the advantages that might accrue to competitors in very subtle ways. Q: To what extent do you think managers can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
as much attention to boundary systems. And it sure felt as if we didn't do very much around belief systems. What I don't know, however, is whether we're going to move beyond the concern about misconduct and discuss other dimensions of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update