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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer sustainable. For example,...
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by Gautam Mukunda
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
and 2007. Their analysis revealed that these organizations face a paradox: Focusing on the social mission is critical to their success in achieving their social mission, and yet such a focus can lead to a lack of focus on commercial...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
that "firm performance and top management compensation are inversely related." And this may not have taken into account the large severance payments made to those being asked to leave their leadership jobs because of mediocre...
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by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few years ago. Just think back to the...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
institutional environment may be especially critical to an organization's performance and long-term survival. Our review reveals that organizations engage in three specific and identifiable sets of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
executives. Healy: To put it in context, we live in a society in which the stars—entertainers, professional athletes, the top performers in any industry—make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about...
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by Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
and that advertising was critical only in a close election, such as the one in 2004. Interestingly, had the Democrats received more outside advertising in 2004, the election would have ended up in a 269-269 tie. Our findings generate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
production. We also discuss design flexibility as an intervening variable that is critical in intermediating conflicts that commons organizations cannot resolve. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
ventures aimed to grow the company from its core HMO business into the consumer health organization market, Phanstiel threw out a system in which managers' variable compensation was largely based on overall company View Details
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by Paul Michelman
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As a behavioral psychologist, Brooks studies the...
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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to their organization's success. Although building teams from individuals with different prior experience is increasingly necessary, prior work examining the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Harvard Business School Supplement 310-017 As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
purchased bundles may not always purchase pure consoles, even though consoles may be cheaper than bundles. The type of bundling chosen is critical to extracting value from consumers, with pure bundling View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
transfer into their organizations? How can companies be sure they are collecting the right information? Heskett: The collection and processing of information about customers is one of the most critical functions View Details
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
program management is critical is related to decisions that maximize the performance of the system as a whole, but involve trade-offs at the individual project level. For example, it is far more effective...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
participants? A: A channel steward is someone who is able to interpret the needs of customers (including latent needs) and construct appropriate channels to address them. It is important to underscore that in so doing, a channel steward creates value for customers,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series View Details
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Sean Silverthorne