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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
possess some nice theoretical properties, such as the optimization of social surplus and having dominant strategies. These properties may not be satisfied by current position auctions and their variants. We therefore concentrate on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
O for organizational capabilities). Chief executive officers who employ Theory E are driven by one thing: increasing shareholder value. They often conclude that the way to generate the best shareholder returns is through drastic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy transactions. We discuss elements of market design that make this possible, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
aspect of business is up for re-evaluation as a result of the pandemic, from the most granular to the most overarching level. Two executives shared vivid descriptions of the early days when the reality of the pandemic set in. It was like... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
programming. The airwaves were literally jammed. In the face of such bedlam, NBC led a charge on Washington in search of regulation and the allocation of frequencies across the spectrum--the property rights I mentioned before. The result... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but substitutes at high levels. Furthermore, the principal will rely more on persuasion when agent motivation is more important for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
School Case 811-064 Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Struggles and Standard Chartered Bank: Managing Global Key Accounts Robert G. Eccles and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 411-011 Daren Kemp, a partner at leadership consultancy and executive search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
can have positive impacts on innovation and entrepreneurship. After experimentation, policy makers are able to pick and choose among a variety of policies to implement those that work best. While some officials proactively search for... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic Authors:Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract Using Internet traffic patterns from the Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
increase his financial gains, if that choice imperiled his control of the decision making within Ockham, he was inclined to maintain control at the expense of financial gains. Likewise for executive hires. In the "Wily" case I... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
collaborations. Another characteristic shared by this group of businesses was that they were all multinational corporations, a fact that helps us to understand many of their decisions. Sample cases show that subsidiaries' top executives... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
motivate employees to learn, may only yield performance benefits among those who are already highly engaged and motivated. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55888 In Search of Organizational Alignment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower.) Developing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
graduate of the General Management Program, an intensive seven-week Executive Education curriculum at Harvard Business School. On April 22, beaming in from space via satellite feed, he spent half an hour addressing a packed audience of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
views as possible ... and then get the buy in for the execution process." Anshu Vats expressed this view a bit differently when he said, "Groupthink is heavily discouraged in the companies where the leaders lead from behind. ...... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett