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- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become...
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by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they, too, represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
developments in a changing market. Says Cespedes: “Value is created or destroyed with customers, and good leaders know that interpreting market data is not just a search for truth and insights. It’s also about actionable dialogue with the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
the search for best practices. The strategy part is very much more difficult, but it creates the need for choice with the associated uncertainty and anxiety. Strategy requires saying no, rather than empowering everyone in the organization...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
Congress and the streets getting fixed." “The sweet spot is where you are working hard, but also getting things done” In a new paper, Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services, Norton worked with Ryan W. Buell, assistant...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information technology...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Exercise 408-076 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
with a supporting appendix that describes 19 additional immigrants or immigrant families and their firms. Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
negotiators search for the deeper interests that underlie the parties' positions. During a seemingly intractable dispute over the Sinai, Sebenius points out, negotiators concluded that the Israelis cared more about security, while the...
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by Anita M. Harris
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
one with fewer answers? Those were the questions implied by this month's column. The predominance of responses suggested that the answers to the questions are "yes, yes, and maybe." Adam Hartung commented that "As View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
before September 2012 to identify survey instruments used to measure teamwork and to assess their conceptual content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. We searched the ISI Web of Knowledge database and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
possess some nice theoretical properties, such as the optimization of social surplus and having dominant strategies. These properties may not be satisfied by current position auctions and their variants. We therefore concentrate on the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New Markets and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
public’s interest and underscore its anxiety regarding artificial intelligence, playing with themes of machines with minds of their own, the loss of privacy, and the rise of false intimacy that technological advances are bringing to...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
capabilities” triggered a flood of debate and discussion on the topic. Unfortunately, the literature on dynamic capabilities has become mired in endless debates about definitions and has engaged in an elusive search for properties that...
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Sean Silverthorne