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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
organizations in which he and his firm invested. The objectives to which he referred were Collins’s and Porras’s BHAGs, preferably a ten times improvement in some performance metric. In his book Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
inflexible, organizational structure to successfully execute a strategy. As companies think through the risks and opportunities of various regional strategies, they also need to clarify what they mean by the word "region." I...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by—and reflective of—hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create them. In this view,...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
functioning in that way. From an economic perspective, that deceit is preferable to the realities of tariffs. In recent tweets on auto companies, he’s already changed his language to a “border tax,” from tariffs. I think the View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
marketing of stylish, lower-tech bicycles. The company's future hangs in the balance. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609042 KPMG (B): Risk and Reform Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a professional education. It has been an...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the...
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Anna Secino
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
for anyone seeking insights into financial markets, A Crisis of Beliefs shows how even the smartest market participants and regulators did not fully appreciate the extent of economic risk and offers a new framework for understanding...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the...
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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
"I believe 120 percent in what I'm doing," she said, well before the Boston site took shape. "If you didn't have that, you wouldn't have the energy to get up in the morning. You really enjoy the good days, because there are a lot of bad days right now....
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
solves both of those. It not only equips someone who doesn’t have those last-mile skills with the skills that she needs, but it’s providing her with the experience that she needs to get hired. And more than that, we’re not asking the apprentice to take on any financial...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
volatility. Using our model we quantify how capital injections impact the risk of financial institutions and estimate firm-specific precautionary capital needs. In addition, the longstanding observation that volatility is more responsive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
and the risks associated with each. Accepting involves prioritizing the job above all else and remaining available 24/7. Because accepters fail to cultivate outside interests, they’re often slow to recover from professional setbacks. And...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our credit card or for users who choose not to connect a card and would prefer to answer questions instead. How do we make those estimates more accurate or how do we account for things like the fact that a grocery bill should be...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about how Microsoft internally and through its investments in OpenAI is AI-enabling its ubiquitous products—from office apps to Teams collaboration software. We’ll consider use cases and, crucially, how Microsoft sees organizations adapting business processes, jobs,...
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