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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
request, a message that informs infringers of the price reduction and acknowledges the possibility of unintentionality generates a large increase in settlement. Including a deadline further increases the response. The higher settlement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
because intrinsic motivation is so important for creativity, people's creativity can actually decline in situations when they're under a lot of extrinsic control. For example, tight deadlines do motivate people. They motivate people to...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
submission deadline is December 1, 2011; the results of the competition experiment will not be revealed until that date. The submitted models will be ranked based on their prediction error. The winners of the competitions will be invited...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
make exactly that happen: a process tested successfully by BCG teams in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A process I have seen implemented with good and not-so-good managers; on big and small teams, with tight View Details
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
broken down with the signing deadline less than 24 hours away (if Dice-K is not signed by the deadline, he must return to Japan for a year). How high should the Red Sox be willing to go with their offer? What are the alternatives if they...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
consistently delivers a valuable, innovative product under the pressure of a very firm deadline (opening night, eight o'clock curtain). The product, a play, executes again and again with great precision, incorporating significant...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
things done and you get that group of people together in a room to talk about solving this problem. You put a deadline on those people to come back with a plan, actionable plan, the resources you need to get this done, the milestones...
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important client and that is...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone. Over time, she...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
possible unintentionality generate a large increase in the settlement rate; including a deadline further increases the response. The small price effect, compared to the large message effect, can be explained by two countervailing effects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
classes and visits to New York (where FashionStake is based). "The contest worked as a forcing mechanism for us," Gulati says. "Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle." "For us,...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
forcing mechanism for us,” Gulati says. “Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle.” “For us, the main goal wasn’t to make it to the finals or win, it was to get good feedback that...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
costs,” Whillans says. “It will help you feel more in control.” It’s also OK to request more time to get work projects done if necessary, since studies show managers are generally willing to extend deadlines when employees ask. “It’s...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
weekend deadline for a new cooling room. With 20 local businesspeople due to arrive for a tour and lunch, Viana had grabbed a broom without comment and began sweeping up the sawdust. Never mind that he had two secretaries at his last job,...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message informing infringers of the price reduction and acknowledging the possible unintentionality generate a large increase in the settlement rate; including...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
audit the way their process works. I hope also that considerably more effort is put in to understanding the user experience of a job applicant in responding to a request over long descriptions that are very intimidating in their use of language, that don’t make clear...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
actually don’t care, as long as it’s within your deadline and it’s within your budget. That’s great. Think about that in the context of how you work with your employees, with your full-timers. At the end of the day, what do you care when...
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Print View - Course Catalog
to Raise Funds - what do investors care about when considering a pitch, which investors should you target, how to build a syndicate, and which advisors do you want on board; negotiating term sheets. How to Meet Scientific Deadlines - you...
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