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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
its anatomy, which has worked well in other high-tech sectors, can't handle the fundamental challenges facing drug R&D: profound, persistent uncertainty and high risks rooted in the limited knowledge of human biology; the need for the diverse View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
historians have contended with in their work. Collectively, the authors provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the...
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- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached maturity with proven, unambiguous concepts and tools? Or is it still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? This paper portrays ERM as an evolving...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
attribution and construal processes, and motivated illusions was incorporated into our understanding of negotiations. Several promising areas of research have emerged in recent years, drawing from other disciplines and informing the field...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty years. Early in his career, he...
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by Jim Aisner
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
process conformance—the extent to which managers aim to reduce variation in store operations in accordance with a set of prescribed standards for task performance. At high-process-conformance stores, managers use discipline in...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
professionals and understand professional norms. As long as there is a fair hearing, it’s perfectly fine to get relevant information into the decision-making process.” The most important thing for academics to keep in mind, says Moss, is not to check the rigors of...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
we attempt to identify a structure among the model elements to test hypotheses about (1) the inter-relationships of the explanatory variables, and (2) the relationships of the explanatory variables to each other and to firm performance. We find that the contributing...
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Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
functions that are strategically important. The School also works aggressively to control benefits expense through disciplined vendor selection and management. As a result of these efforts, the increases in staff FTE positions and total...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
he produced on what he called the “artistry” of teaching. Inspired by Christensen’s example, successive generations of teachers — in business, law, medicine, and other disciplines — continue to take up that challenge today. “For many of...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and measure yourself against accordingly. Learn quickly what your true "drivers" are—what really motivates and energizes you—and then pursue a career that is coherent with them. If you follow your passion with competence (heart) and View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
about professional ritual, rhythms, and disciplines that underlie the general approach to what they did with the music as well. If you look at how theater ensembles work, there is a notion at the People's Light & Theatre Company, a...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
non-profit organizations. He is the author of the book The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations recently published by Penguin Random House. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS...
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Print View - Course Catalog
of places will be held for students from the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Design. The mix of students from diverse disciplines will contribute to both student learning and the range of solutions proposed for the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really high. And we are fortunate in that Blue Cross tends to be the employer of choice for pretty much all the other disciplines that we hire. Fuller: If we move a little bit beyond BlueSky, here we are talking in the late fall, almost...
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