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- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
things done." Starting with the building blocks of leadership, a framework for cultural change, and having the right people in the right place, they maintain that getting things done is based on the linkages between three basic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
latest manifestation of a lecture given 68 years ago by Ronald Coase, now professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. Prof. Coase set forth a theory designed to help set limits on organizational boundaries. He proposed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
example, Pilgrim commented that the need for leadership is highly overrated. “We build structures with a slot at the top and the result is an implied need for leadership.” If our organizations were more fashioned like a networks,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Case 806-093 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806093 Boat Building Exercise: Four Modes of Propulsion Harvard Business School Exercise 606-148 Purchase this exercise:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. Departing from this work, in this paper we focus on the strategic compensation of non-executive employees and argue that while agency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
organization, no matter what its age or size. Richard Hamermesh: The theory and concepts about entrepreneurship—the research and the knowledge—have been around HBS for a long time. I would give particular credit to Howard and Bill Sahlman... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
differences in motives and activities of not-for-profit organizations, and the need to develop additional theories to address those differences in explaining interorganizational arrangements between them. The Structural Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management by building more value in their alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching. 2) Business school curricula, if not always their teaching, reflect the demands of the market. This is or is not appropriate, but not... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
of past successes to predict that more successes are in store. The theory in use is that if you find someone with a track record and with the right-stuff attributes, then he or she can successfully manage the new business venture. But in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
increasing in the "strength" (i.e., relative presence) of related industries. Building on Porter (1998, 2003), we develop a systematic empirical framework to analyze the role of regional clusters-groups of closely related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess mortality and incremental health expenditures associated with exposure to the following 10... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel