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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
primary customer? Decided whether shareholders, employees, or customers come first? Narrowed down which performance variables to track? Have you set creative boundaries? Are you generating creative tension? Are you promoting cooperation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
on prices and, hence, cost control. Consequently, customer satisfaction was suffering. Despite the growing Turkish economy and a favorable regulatory environment, Solmaz was struggling to grow the company without further sacrificing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources Authors:Sunil Gupta and Thomas J....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational...
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- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative Cloud where consumers paid a monthly subscription fee. Within...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical behavior. In four studies, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus banks had to find new ways to recapture these now more expensive...
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by Staff
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
experience. Deep support enables psychological self-determination. It produces time for life. It facilitates and enhances the experience of being the origin of one's life. It recognizes, responds to, and promotes individuality. It...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are...
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- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
work of a UNIX systems lab technician in the 21st century differs extravagantly from the work of a factory worker 100, or even 20, years earlier. In this paper, we argue that technological transformations now underway create the potential for work structures more View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
struggle for custody over divisional control was a micropolitical process of interprofessional competition, played out between accountants and risk controllers who promoted conflicting measures of the key strategic uncertainty,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic transactions, facilitate global...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
to long-term goals. We integrate our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals’ message and providing support for their attainment. We also show more View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those...
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Sean Silverthorne