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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
operations. Through its financial incentives, personal and professional development initiatives, and worker-appreciation programs, NatureSweet had cultivated a truly unique, uplifting workplace culture in its Mexico operations. Ambelang aspired to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
Pontal, PPPs could be replicated throughout the SFV, transforming the historically poor region into an agribusiness hub, as well as being a model for the rest of the world. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
enjoyment. Study 2 replicated these findings for family rituals pertaining to a secular holiday, New Year’s Eve. Study 3 used experimental design and had participants either describe their rituals and then report their holiday enjoyment...
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- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
outcome can be replicated by a licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of the above regimes can reach first or second best. Finally, we consider patents of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
America analyzes U.S. foreign aid and poverty in Africa. With an interest in development issues in the Third World generally, America works with African business schools in particular. He has helped create the Southern Africa Business School Network, which he plans to...
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- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected stocks outperforms a replicating portfolio of non-connected stocks by up to 8.4% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A...
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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
School Case 112-096 In June 2010, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services operator, acquired the African assets of Bahrain-based Zain Telecom for $10.7 billion-the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets. Bharti's executives envisioned that they would...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
for its work in HIV/AIDS, where its innovative medicines now accounted for 60% of all patients on anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines. Much of this was accomplished through generic licensing, which brought a $10,000/year treatment regimen down to $100! Should the company...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
testosterone. Taken together, all but one conceptual replication has demonstrated support for the embodied effects of expansive nonverbal postures. However, multiple experiments have found that the postural effects appear to be bounded by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Vanity resort developments are not replicable for a billion people needing new cities; the real value comes from the momentum and scale of integrated business, government, and social activity. Phu My Hung is built, with the vision and...
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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
acquisition costs. These results suggest that eBay's foray into leveraging the social Internet for profit reveals a replicable strategy that benefits both the company and the consumer and can be succinctly summarized as: eBay increases...
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- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
achieved higher profits when employees were passive (proactive). Study 2 constructively replicates these findings in the laboratory: passive (proactive) groups achieved higher performance when leaders acted high (low) in extraversion. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
http://hbr.org/product/indispensable-when-leaders-really-matter/an/11129-HBK-ENG Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension Authors:Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko, and Maarten W. Bos Publication:Journal of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
collaborate with on this effort? Can this model be replicated at scale across the country? Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-079 Membership Rewards® from American Express...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
relative to other U.S. technologies. Since the signaling component of a World's Fair prize was replicated through publication of an invention in the Scientific American, our results suggest that publicity for promising research fields is...
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Sean Silverthorne