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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
therefore no reliable way to transfer codified knowledge about methods and practices across the organization. Furthermore, while "red team reviews" —progress reviews conducted by NASA's most experienced managers—proved...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system,...
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- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
availability of high quality information on corporate performance is critical to the effective functioning of the exchanges and maintaining their reputations for listing reliable securities. In this e-mail Q&A, Healy and Palepu expand...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Case 817-034 ShotSpotter SST, Inc. offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States in addition to a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
Organizations can use elements of self-management in areas where the need for adaptability is high and traditional models where reliability is paramount. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51297 forthcoming...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, tested the potential problem of raters that compete for business favoring the issuers and providing less reliable ratings. Their HBS working paper "Reputation and...
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- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
deal with such cultural differences is critical for business success in China. Secondly, my research suggests that, in a Chinese business environment, the more well-connected a person is in a manager's professional network is, the more likely the manager is to trust...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
categories wrong.5 One problem with predicting future success from past success is that managers can succeed for reasons not of their own making. An alternative, circumstance-based theory articulated by Professor Morgan McCall can, in our view, serve as a much more...
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by Michael Raynor
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
science," but usually they've meant by this that they don't understand the activity and can't do it reliably themselves. In this view, artistic methods and art-like activities are personal and intuitive, even magical, not yet...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric devices in tuberculosis (TB) treatment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
cross-groups' similarities and one difference across 10 non-U.S. nations. Seven European (individualist) and three East Asian (collectivist) nations (N=1028) support three hypothesized cross-cultural similarities: (a) perceived warmth and competence View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
reliable use by researchers and practitioners/managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-116.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsVodafone Qatar: Building a Telco in the Gulf Juan Alcacer and Andrew GoodmanHarvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
concerned about water reliability and the need for additional infrastructure to provide long-term water security to the region. If convinced that the water problem would be resolved, then Woolf should move quickly to purchase more land,...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for reliably creating leaders). Our research program involves not only discovering the technology, but also creating a course that would be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
professional investors discern when CEOs and other executives in publicly traded firms "either lacked confidence in or were conveying less than complete or reliable information" in their public statements. BIA aimed to give its...
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Sean Silverthorne