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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
had little revenue because it offered services free of charge. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709456 Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to respond to the debate over North Carolina's recently signed law,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management? While looking over responses to this month's column, I noticed a newspaper article describing a growing number of young managers who are making so much money managing, in many cases other people's money, that they have decided to forego an MBA. Does this...
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by Jim Heskett
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or non-adoption) of self-matching across a range of competitive scenarios, including a monopolist, a mixed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile By: Kast, Felipe, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
number of companies are placing users at the core of their business strategies. Take MUJI, a leading Japanese design retailer, which has created a range of products designed by customers including a car, light fixtures, and sofas. The...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
macroeconomy. Can Denmark keep its borders open to the free movement of goods, services, and labor while also sustaining the breadth of its welfare offerings? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709015-PDF-ENG...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants with these same marketing programs. Q: How should consumers protect themselves from potential fraud? A: It's highly desirable to keep your computer free of the sorts of bad software that I've described. There is a good reason...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capitalization ratio of 70 percent, though the ratios range from 50 percent to 90 percent or more. While high leverage provides several important benefits, these benefits come at a cost. First, high leverage provides managerial discipline...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
mainly involves a more rapid reallocation of jobs across establishments within target firms. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17399 Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing amongst scientists are supposed...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability—persistently predict a wide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Christianity—monotheistic religions whose adherents have so often clashed—the potential unifying power of this conception has attracted a remarkable range of supporters from around the world. From a notion crystallized at Harvard in 2004,...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest...
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Sean Silverthorne