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- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
counties given their immense differences; an economics group at Amherst College is using our dataset to find links between COVID responses and rugged individualism; and Emory University epidemiologists are using the dataset to perform natural experiments quantifying...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
the same experience and credentials?" Analyzing the content and efficacy of roughly three hundred one-minute pitches, the researchers found that certain words and phrases could be used as signaling devices to create an impression of...
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Judith Ross
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
pathway towards enhanced mitigation and adaptation will be shaped by its local context, C40’s scope enhances its efficacy in scaling solutions and enhancing climate action plans to address local needs. As highlighted in the MCAP, the need...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
information from the participants' individual workstations, the researchers could figure out who had understated their earnings or overstated their commuting costs. Again, the results were significant in indicating the efficacy of a...
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- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
fund their ventures. Few academic papers have examined the efficacy of more proactive networking. In the 150 papers the researchers examined, only 30 looked at this strategy. Some behavior studies, however, have shown that entrepreneurs...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
location. Buell and Norton found that when shown the second version of the website, users were much more impressed with the work that government was doing—and much more favorable about the efficacy of government overall. "There's a...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
honest answerers than the humblebraggers. The takeaway: Don't humblebrag in a job interview. Deconstructing The Humblebrag The next set of studies measured the efficacy of pure complaining and pure bragging against humblebragging. "If you...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
impact on entrepreneurship, using individual- and firm-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allowed entrepreneurs to bypass the project screening function of banks, by instead relying on the value of housing collateral to access credit. This enables us to study...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
everyday tasks. When explaining Alfred, Sapone says, “Think of what Alfred did for Batman” referring to the superhero’s loyal and efficacious butler. “Our view is that through a mix of human intuition and technology, we...
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- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
unveil several factors that lead sellers to remain in money-losing relationships with their customers, including, among others: the nature and level of investments made in the relationship (higher levels of relationship-specific investments and lower View Details
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and firm managers will be able to better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production and operations and measuring the...
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Garry Emmons
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
"reorganizing" and "incentives" is usually the primary prescription if and when strategists even discuss sales. On the other side, there is a vast amount of anecdotal advice, mainly from consultants and trainers who believe in the universal View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The therapy has shown significant View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
evidence of the efficacy of problem solving when disclosing problem information. The method's application to 166 discrete scientific problems from the research laboratories of 26 firms is illustrated. Problems were disclosed to over...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall...
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