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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
In contrast, power is obtained by engaging in exchanges with numerous alternative exchange partners, whose exchange opportunities are limited. These distinctions yield powerful insights into dynamics and consequences of power and status....
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
don’t think it’s possible to formulate a rule that applies in every such situation.” He went on to say, “The scariest part of this for me is that leaders are coming under fire increasingly for what they didn’t say and didn’t do members of some movements might boycott,...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Brand (in)fidelity: When Flirting with the Competition Strengthens Brand Relationships By: Consiglio, I., D. Kupor, F. Gino, and M.I. Norton Abstract—We document the existence and consequences of brand flirting: a short-lived experience in which a consumer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
policy on public participation to have teeth, it must also be tied to the performance reviews of staff. The Bank is filled with dedicated and motivated professionals, but few have the incentives to engage project-affected View Details
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
quasi-liberal) democracies, we typically can support both objectives simultaneously. Accordingly, the guiding principle for our engagement in the Middle East and North Africa should be to support movement toward liberal democracy. This...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and event-planning needs that...
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- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the movements of experts between these positions. Our empirical findings and theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
of entrepreneurs supported. Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/121212-Female1_Spatial.pdf For Mobile Devices, Think Apps, Not Ads Authors:Gupta, Sunil Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Many companies envision mobile ads becoming an integral part of their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
promising ways of attracting such investors is integrated reporting, which provides companies with a means of credibly communicating the commitment of its top leadership to diffusing integrated thinking across the organization and to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
Porter, for example, saw the company surrounded by its suppliers, customers, competitors and substitutes, engaged in a battle with them to capture the maximum economic value possible. The subsequent interest in building and leveraging...
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- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
to have a rich conversation about whether this early-stage venture should shift its strategy dramatically to support all schools, not just charter schools. When we discussed the case in April, my 160 students were fully engaged in the...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
challenging first year as the IT director of IVK Corporation, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events. You can read this engaging narrative from beginning to end, like a regular book, or treat...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Communications Equipment Industry Harvard Business School Case 107-025 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107025 Symantec vs. McAfee: Competing in the Consumer Anti-virus Industry Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries,...
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Sean Silverthorne