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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in Japan. Some 16,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, and 383,000 buildings... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
Summing Up "It is pretty clear to me to whom the board is accountable: the shareholders."—J. W. Penland "When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests as it has recently done in some instances, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
strong career imprints. Your book contrasts the organizational factors that influenced young managers who worked at Baxter and Abbott in the 1970s and ’80s. What were some key... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
required by participants and those provided by suppliers (“the skills gap”) and the gap that separates skill acquisition from skill application (“the skills transfer gap”). We canvass the literature on skill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
one time," says Buell. Third parties also track service quality (J.D. Power in this case). And because banking is a service that touches almost everyone, its customer group is diverse, making the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
of family-owned and-managed firms. It may sound a simplistic conclusion that there has never been "one best way" of achieving business success. However, this historical experience stands as a powerful corrective to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
reviews, online reviews, TripAdvisor being the biggest. The second one is location of the hotel and the third is price. So companies control price. They don’t control location. They control where they set up but once they set up they... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of translucent blue, orange, and pink... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
marketing chicanery almost by accident. He was working on a related project involving a major US-based clothing and accessories brand (he can’t say which), when he noticed something odd happening at their outlet stores. “They never even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
“I showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring.' He put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
the role of a firm’s identity remains relatively unexplored. How do a firm’s internal identity (the shared understanding of organizational members) and external identity (how outsiders perceive the organization) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
going to have the power and the passion to fundamentally change it. For example, almost half of Sony's profits now come from a guy who six or seven years ago was a lowly engineer in corporate R&D. He had... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
growing up in a family business influence your desire to attend business school? I always knew there were ways to grow the business that we hadn’t thought of yet, or hadn’t created a plan for yet. I felt business school would inspire... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Yin Abstract—We study how sell-side analysts produce information in a context where the central government can influence financial intermediaries. Leveraging seven economic periods between 2005 and 2015 when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Toronto. "But more recent research shows how culture endures in spite of globalization. Networks and local regulations also significantly influence how companies react to their local environments."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne