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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than...
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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
a powerful tool for value creation. For senior management neither to understand the risks being taken by the firm nor to understand how the risks that were selected not to be taken are being eliminated is to delegate a crucial part of...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
find that the interaction of task change with intrapersonal diversity is related to improved project performance, while the interaction of task change with interpersonal diversity is related to diminished performance. Additionally, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
support the change, and evaluating the change implementation). We examine this relationship using data from 89 clinical managers at the United Kingdom National Health Service who implemented change projects between 2003 and 2004. Our...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
to manage. A key assumption is that middle management exercises proper judgment in selectively exhibiting leniencies. Moral gray zones therefore rely on trust, at all levels, and might not be appropriate in all contexts. Strong...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Africa Project (B) David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. CrearyHarvard Business School Supplement 412-028 This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
search results and users' decisions about where and how to focus their attention: Users who decide what to click based on listings' relevance became more likely to select paid listings, while users who were influenced by listings' visual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Gino, and B. Staats Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frequency and concentrate on a narrow selection of genres, regularly opt for obscure products likely not available in bricks-and-mortar stores. Casting doubt on the "democratizing" nature of online channels, however, I also show...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
public, going over investment projects, dividends, and share buybacks, dwelling more on this or that depending on the audience. For road show meetings, the IR group prepares comprehensive descriptions of selected investments and View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
from their own social networks. Some of these projects are selected and actively supported by senior executives; this support sends clear signals about what collaboration is valued by the firm, which gives...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd...
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by Jim Aisner
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
(their dual identity) might prove both a blessing for attracting many diverse members and a curse for achieving desired outcomes. Originality/Value: More broadly, our results suggest that dual identity organizations might attract members focused on a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that explicitly address the leaders' role in building a "great institution": one that does "well" (produces financial results) and "good" (contributes to the larger good). Q: Who are higher-ambition leaders? A: In our book we explicitly View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a...
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Sean Silverthorne