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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
September–October 2016 European Business Review What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO, the board needs to ask probing...
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by Carla Tishler
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
examine attitudes towards two critical phases of conflict termination—a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We examine the rigidity/flexibility of refugees’ attitudes to see if subtle changes in how wartime losses are framed or in who...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
our hands and hearts to meet the needs of those in our community. Now, more than ever, we are mourning the loss of our friend and colleague, Clayton Christensen, who would have turned 68 this coming Monday, April 6th. This month also...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the informal punching-out system...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Gunnar Trumbull, and Peter Tufano Abstract This article describes the consumer finance sector in the U.S. since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing,...
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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing or decreasing, depending on the magnitude of a manager's career incentives. Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions Authors:David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney Publication:In The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
correlations they produce are driven not only by analysts' systematic forecast errors but also by functional form assumptions. This finding suggests that correcting for the former alone is unlikely to fully resolve these measurement-error...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function being developed by very different organizational forms. At one extreme are commercial software firms, in which the organizational participants...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Japanese staff could function in English. The stakes are high: those who do not reach their target score by the deadline risk being demoted. As Englishnization progresses, loss of productivity, lack of time...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
of 1955 Professor of Business Administration: The immigration bans of the past week are potentially catastrophic for the United States’ leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship. Many have lamented the potential loss of specific...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really challenged by is, how do we actually hire a freelancer? Or how do we get access to one of these platforms? How do we think about our IP [intellectual property]? How do we think about the loss of that knowledge when that individual...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to finally quit one day, because I realized I was 33 years old, I wasn’t getting any younger. And I decided I was going to run for Congress. I lost spectacularly. But losing something that you have kind of been working your whole life to do and realizing that that...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
increasingly about being fast, flexible and responsive. The competitive rules of business used to be about functionality and reliability, being just good enough. Ann-Somers Hogg: Our favorite example of this to illustrate the point is...
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