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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
ever doubt your own ability, then you're doomed. Those are probably the key things I took away with me. Meakem: I draw on CCMO [Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations] every day, just in terms of compensation—our...
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- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
honest answerers than the humblebraggers. The takeaway: Don't humblebrag in a job interview. Deconstructing The Humblebrag The next set of studies measured the efficacy of pure complaining and pure bragging against humblebragging. "If you look at the View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
"best" outcome. Best can be defined in different ways. In one stream of the debate, "best" has been defined as "technologically superior" (again, a term that can be defined differently). So, does the market...
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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
concerning the degree to which scientific activity can be evaluated via numerical metrics, the extent to which R&D can be structured as a process, and the degree to which decision-making should be centralized in commercial R&D...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
and self-improvement. Additionally, we show that future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
program. Conventional wisdom has it that it is difficult for retailers to offer differentiated services or levels of prestige to their different levels of customer loyalty. The belief that loyalty programs lacking explicit tiered reward View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy that actually emerges can be very different. A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are forces that shape strategy in unintended ways. This second point highlights that the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past five years have grown more quickly in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
many African nations were gaining independence. British businesses operating there created a publicity strategy that couched their presence in less developed countries in terms of a commitment and a positive contribution to the progress...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer goods company to look at the...
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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services...
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by Susan Young
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
initially reacted to technology, to a brand-new thing, in this latter case to cell phones and how they make us rude. This is a thematic book of stories before it is a chronological book of stories. Some of the stories, very purposefully, are out of order in View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
focused in his first couple of years. He got rid of a huge number of product lines. He streamlined the operations and he bet on a very small number of products. The combination of the early success of the iMac, the booming marketing in 1998 and 1999, and the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
before September 2012 to identify survey instruments used to measure teamwork and to assess their conceptual content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. We searched the ISI Web of Knowledge database and identified relevant articles using...
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Carmen Nobel