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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive team composition, firm diversification, and IT... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
provider, an intermediary, or any other participant in the value chain to the customer. Within a company the stewardship function might reside with the CEO, a top manager, or a team of senior managers. Despite much talk of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
leadership team create an action plan that makes sense for the company's strategy? This case is designed to be used with the "Balanced Scorecard Simulation Game." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on transient public policies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment, while others are making panicky... View Details
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3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure Entrepreneurial Management Lindsay Hyde Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top B Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits B2B Sales and Distribution Marketing Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Behavioral Economics for... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
employees much more effectively—creating high-performance teams reliably, matching people to projects that fit both their skills and their interests, and dramatically increasing the probability that work will be productively creative. We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many business failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://hbr.org/2010/01/managing-yourself-five-ways-to-bungle-a-job-change/ar/1 Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard Authors:Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1 (January-February 2010): 114-120... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
founder and CEO, J.B. Schramm; Chief Strategy Officer, Mora Segal; and the College Summit team must now decide whether or not to dramatically redefine their organization's theory of change. College Summit could continue to "get... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3 indicates that effects of indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks. The editorial team has identified six broad areas that hold promise. The list is neither exclusive nor prescriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
market failures that may arise. We explore these challenges and suggest an updated regulatory framework that is sufficiently flexible to allow software platforms to operate and deliver their benefits, while ensuring that service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
growth requires. This article explores six common mistakes that executives make in this arena: 1) Failing to provide the right kind of oversight. The CEO should spend meaningful time with the team and with potential customers; 2) Not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino