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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
announcement. He claimed that the Dreyer’s name and logo encroached on Breyers’ trademark and demanded that the company change its name. Although his own attorney advised that Kraft had a strong legal case, Rogers opted to play hardball...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
collaboration by making information available when and where it's needed. They routinely capture data on processes to discover how work really happens. Finally, they study these data in an effort to find ways to improve execution. Taken together, these practices View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract— Various View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while motivations propel them to do so. We derive a typology of network...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
construct," "build operate transfer," and other forms of public-private partnership. The handling of municipal solid waste takes up to 50% of the annual budget of many urban areas in the developing world. The ability to use...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
product of the GPP’s Substance Abuse Research Alliance (SARA), an affiliate group of 150 researchers, public officials, and practitioners all working to turn the rising tide of deaths from opioid overdose. Langford, here for the organization’s quarterly meeting, View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For...
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by David A. Garvin
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
free-for-all five years ago has long since been beaten into submission by the myriad personnel, administrative, and legal hassles of "management." John B. Higginbotham (MBA '79) February 1988 It seems that every high- and low-brow...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
secondary results also indicate that other forms of marginalization (e.g., being from a “lower caste”) are related to higher productivity. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46700 Information Provision...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
such patents. Our theoretical model builds on two distinct strategy literatures: firms appropriating rents from new technologies and firms managing stakeholders. We predict that a win-win outcome emerges when the patent strength is moderate and when local stakeholders...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Henry H. Kuehn (MBA 1969) MIT Press An illustrated guide to more than 200 gravesites of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright. All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of...
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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
narrow, institutionally, and legally focused definition familiar to most people outside the business. The so-called "shadow banking system" (i.e., non-bank financial institutions involved in an array of financial transactions)...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the word “innovation,” and you were the Chief Innovation Officer. What was your specific ambit, and how did you conceive of innovation in a bureaucratic setting, where so much of what’s done is driven by legislation, is driven by process and procedure, View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in addition to the standard measure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Gronin, et al. Abstract—Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
company. To build a culture of agility, creativity, and innovation, Gillette developed an innovation fair in which every unit could show off its most promising new concepts. I was privileged to judge the first one with the then CEO, where we gave an award to the View Details