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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
features that became commonplace prior to the financial crisis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-083.pdf The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Authors:William R. Kerr, Josh...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
(from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as...
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- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
necessary? How could he keep people engaged as the nature of the work evolved in some instances to become more predictable? What new systems and processes were needed to ensure a steady output of high quality work? Lebowitz was proud that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general managers but not as entrepreneurs. His...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
is not enough to offset the average deviation penalty. To develop our results further, we explore two common ordering heuristics: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. We find that choosing the shortest cases first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
level the informational playing field. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-033.pdf Signaling Firm Performance through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items Authors:Edward J. Riedl and Suraj...
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