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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
theoretical dichotomy of family and managerial firms is misleading. Instead of interpreting the family firm as a static organization, the focus should shift to the family influence, which evolves with time and with the evolution of...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying...
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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
fund the launch of nearly all start-ups. The founders' current income, cash reserves, credit card capacity, and "mortgagable" assets account for most of the early stage capital in the United States.2 Other forms of non-cash...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
improvement, and holding people accountable for results. The authors propose a holistic framework that district leaders can use to develop an improvement strategy and build coherent organizations to implement it. The framework is based on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of management on firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
products, hit products typically constitute the lion's share of their choices. Moreover, reminiscent of the "double jeopardy" concept, consumers of obscure products generally appreciate those products less than the more popular products. I discuss View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Press, 1997. Merton, Robert C., V. Bernard, and Krishna Palepu. "Market-to-Market Accounting for Banks and Thrifts: Lessons from the Danish Experience." Journal of Accounting Research 33, no. 1 (spring...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range of theoretical mechanisms and discuss implications for policy, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
2011 Abstract The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries Author:Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012) Abstract This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508046 Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills Harvard Business School Case 308-068 This case focuses on the legal and...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
right-censors the uncertain emissions price and ii) dispatch flexibility, which is the firm's ability to first deploy its most profitable capacity given the realized emissions price. In addition to these managerial insights, we also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical challenges leaders face? To connect...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one function — say marketing, finance, or accounting — and he would be given only a piece of a...
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