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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Publication:California Management Review 53, no. 4 (summer 2011) Abstract Dynamic capabilities have been proposed as a useful way to understand how organizations are able to adapt to changes in technology and markets. Organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis
- 2015
- Book
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,...
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Railroad History;
Airlines;
Airline Industry;
Air Transportation;
Passenger Transportation;
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Urban Planning;
Freighting;
Change;
Leadership;
Public Policy;
Change Leadership;
Public Finance;
Infrastructure;
Policy;
Technological Innovation;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Urban Development;
Project Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
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Kanter, Rosabeth M. MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
the restructuring of Chrysler in the midst of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. It describes how debtors can use section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to sell assets quickly. It allows for discussion of who benefits and who loses in...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we investigate how multinationals around...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
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by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
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Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
responsible for managing major public health issues, the leader with the skills to coordinate responses and put the public at ease. Absent that, the President has tapped Ron Klain, a Washington insider known for his ability to manage...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker,...
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by Staff
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
monitoring their profits—often using even more sophisticated methods than manufacturers in the North. Several of the slave owners' practices, such as incentivizing workers (in this case, to get them to pick more cotton) and depreciating...
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by Katie Johnston
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.This post is drawn from an article that appeared first in The View Details
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by John Quelch
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Recently, she went to Washington to present the paper to her former colleagues. “It turns out the working paper has been quite useful to regulators,” says Mills, who is working to convene policymakers and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
Summing Up Is Wealth Distribution a Problem Cause or Symptom? The passion and thought that went into this month's questions about wealth redistribution suggest that the topic is of more than passing interest. Some cautioned against hasty changes. Many View Details
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by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
conditions. Both large and small businesses felt the sting of job losses during the crisis, but small firms were hit harder, took longer to recover, and may still be reeling from the economic fallout. This is consistent with economic literature that tells View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Harvard Business School professor David A. Garvin has studied the development of the case method of teaching at Harvard's law, business, and medical schools. Garvin wanted to see how the schools are similar and different in their use of...
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by David A. Garvin
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
Washington University; and Lucia Macchia, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy. The research is particularly relevant, they say, given that many early educators today are focusing on willpower,...
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- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
common uses of online ratings: restaurants. "Restaurants are a classic example in economics where the consumer has to make a decision based on very little information," he says. In theory, ratings sites fill in the gaps by...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
along with professor Lamar Pierce and doctoral student Timothy Gubler from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. The researchers studied an attendance award program initiated by managers at one of the five...
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