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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
intrinsic task motivation-and one component outside the individual-the social environment in which the individual is working. The current version of the theory encompasses organizational creativity and innovation, carrying implications...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
financial gains (i.e., achieve the profit motive) should conflict with their ability to achieve the control motive. In particular, it focuses on how attracting the external resources required to build value can conflict with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
trust, individuals express care for the welfare of their partners and believe in the intrinsic value of such relationships. There is usually genuine emotional investment in relationships based on this type...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
used.” THANK YOU, WESTLEY: Minard with the horse that inspired SmartPak. On starting a business, she advises entrepreneurs to “choose something you’re intrinsically interested in; it will help you get through the hard times.” SmartPak’s...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
intrinsically good and not subject to reevaluation on a case-by-case basis," writes Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine in Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial...
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by Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business...
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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
negative emotions, lower intrinsic motivation, and less favorable perceptions of the organization-with negative consequences for performance. These actions include signaling low expectations for innovation; switching strategic direction...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
problems or create value in some way. What's driving this trend? Karim Lakhani: The main driver is accessing knowledge that is widely distributed in the world. Many organizations are now finding they simply do not have the ability to...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
strategy. Methodological Fit in Management Field Research Authors:A. C. Edmondson and S. E. McManus Periodical:The Academy of Management Review 32, no. 4 (October 2007) Abstract Methodological fit, an implicitly valued attribute of...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
letter reports on our fiscal 2021 financial results and our outlook for fiscal 2022. One of our financial goals is for HBS to serve as a living example of a well-run organization, embodying the skills, tools, and frameworks taught across the School's educational...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach By: Fisher III, William W., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
pressures in that environment, can influence creativity by influencing people's passion for their work. Managers can influence the level of creativity in their organizations by establishing work environments that support passion for the work. View Details
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Martha Lagace