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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
organization. Our research on the newspaper industry indicates that the greater a manager's experience away from the core organization, the less likely that motivation remains focused on the threat to the core organization. Appoint an...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
organizations to strategies built on partnerships to accomplish both their individual and their newly shared goals. A similar incongruity seemed to exist between Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Visa International. RIF is a national...
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by James Austin
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
directors appointed in response to demands by activists. Using a sample of 1,969 activism events over the period 2004-2012, we identify 824 activist directors. We find that activists are more likely to gain board seats at smaller firms...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—Since the 1990s, several western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against "bio-piracy." We explore conditions under which firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he says. In his first interview since becoming Dean, Light View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
on how this might be accomplished. For this purpose, we present the results of surveys we conducted of fellowship directors and residents, discuss how the present market for orthopaedic surgery fellows resembles the market for medical...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
the new one. Cultural and historical reasons also exist for why one region would be more or less open to information flows. There are also legal issues. For instance, Massachusetts has non-compete agreements where you can't share...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of IP address and assuring...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
as on how it should evolve. Since 1980 General Electric, for instance, has continued to reinvent itself in every field from wind energy to medical diagnostics; and it enjoyed a $22.5 billion profit in 2007. Organizations that foster...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15-year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical Management Group ("Jiamei") rode the wave of China's rapid economic development and had become China's...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
culture of no enables those with the most power or the loudest voice to impose their will. Leaders need to develop and employ a variety of forums for encouraging people to express their views. When Paul Levy embarked on a turnaround of the Beth Israel Deaconess View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
NH, was keen to establish a hospital in the western hemisphere and believed that it was important to demonstrate the model to the U.S. Thus, when the Cayman Islands' government was interested in developing the island as a medical tourism...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717428-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-031 Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (A) In 2014, Medtronic was about to execute a $50 billion acquisition of Ireland-based Covidien. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak was committed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health...
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Sean Silverthorne