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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the requirements for various types of tech support as companies have gone to distance work. And this acceleration just meant the supply-demand imbalance, in terms of people with digital skills. Big companies had not budgeted for this...
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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
faulty decision making. The only evident remedy is in-depth analysis by knowledgeable people after the fact, looking a good distance ahead. This is what we attempted to do with this book. We have also filmed a discussion with experts that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
knowledge about process and productivity improvements that lower costs while simultaneously maintaining or improving outcomes. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51774 in press Journal of Personality and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
aeronautics industry has undergone ups and downs in the past decades: Large orders of planes (and engines) and their cancellation can create prosperity or wreak havoc in these concentrated labor markets. This research surfaces the implicit View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Can Handshake’s endless college job fair democratize employment? The pandemic has underscored the value of distance learning and remote work and bolstered the case for virtualizing the college-to-career...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built firms that were intended to...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
were experiencing in applying for federal aid. After a few emails, phone calls, and socially distanced conversations, the classmates realized that most gig workers were incorrectly assuming that PPP and EIDL...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal Neeley Build trust in spite of...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
about what you are communicating. You also need to work hard to shrink the psychological distance through language. When you have disparity in terms of fluency levels in English, you have to make sure fluent speakers are dialing down to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
capital markets, standard setters, and financial analysts and how managers make accounting choices. But as accounting scholars have focused on understanding how markets and users process accounting data, they have distanced themselves...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
research. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15319 PublicationsSuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:New York: Crown,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance...
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Dina Gerdeman