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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to their organization's success. Although building teams from individuals with different prior experience is increasingly necessary, prior work examining the relationship between experience and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi K. Gardner Abstract Why do some teams fail to use their members' knowledge effectively,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
the Market Harvard Business School Note 707-469 Strategists are not alone in finding failing markets irresistible. Governments and social groups ranging from unions to the World Wildlife Fund also respond to market failures. Governments...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more likely to start businesses in sectors where they had no prior experience and were more likely to fail than those who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where early experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. We also highlight how this adaptation by financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
other contributors to NASA's failed Columbia mission in 2003. Addresses the question of how organizations should deal with "ambiguous threats"-weak signals of potential crisis-and explores why ambiguous threats are so...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
may explain different ways of organizing across organizations. This study contributes to understanding social entrepreneurship as a field of practice and it describes avenues for theorizing about the different organizational approaches adopted by social entrepreneurs....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
inevitable; it will never be eliminated. This is an oversimplication of a complex phenomenon, with nuances in every large organization that has grown beyond the “one for all and all for one” startup spirit. But when it rises to a level...
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both startups and turnarounds involve...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts governing an investment—or will View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
emissions in many settings in which it would otherwise fail to do so. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42912 Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors By: Gow, Ian D., Aida...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54618...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
certain developing countries because the countries failed to meet certain standards for political stability, human rights, market regulation, etc. The new principles-based approach would allow CalPERS money managers to invest in companies...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
The increase in risk is greater than for a control group of banks that intended but failed to transition from private to public ownership, a result that is robust to using a plausibly exogenous instrument for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
public firms. Most importantly, they fail to account for offsetting equity issuances by firms. We show that, taking into account issuances, net shareholder payouts by all U.S. public firms during the period 2005–2014 were in fact only...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
populist leaders who made scapegoats of refugees, immigrants, and minorities. "If we stay the course and fail to change, we will continue to further destroy the planet and further cement inequality." These tensions between neoliberalism...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
agreement, 2) how the nature of the BD function evolves as a technology startup matures, and 3) the attributes of effective BD managers. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/812107-PDF-ENG Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte...
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Sean Silverthorne