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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
value than e-commerce, such as immediacy, curated selection, or allowing touch and feel of non-digital experiential goods. Thinking of online shopping as a compliment and an opportunity, rather than as a substitute and a threat to offline shopping, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
run a successful multinational IT services firm where employees are treated like an extended family and strategy emerges from the bottom up? Those are the key leadership questions posed by Professor David Garvin’s 2010 case, “Zensar: The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
contact. While some businesses have boomed amid demand for videoconferencing and collaborative technology, the CEOs of other firms will likely face difficult decisions, if they haven’t already. On a personal level, CEOs faced many of the... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which social networks operate as tools of political influence through affective mechanisms. In Search of the Hybrid Ideal Authors:Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Diversification, Legitimacy and Practice Area Creation in Professional Service Firms Authors:Heidi Gardner, N. Anand, and Timothy Morris Publication:Special Issue on Professional Service Firms. Journal of Organizational Behavior 29, no. 8... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
played in accelerating innovation. We know that small, entrepreneurial firms are the source of much of the innovation in the economy—but our work suggested that in many industries the emergence of those View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms differed in key ways, all... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We found 58 scales that measured teamwork; 12 of them have been shown to relate to non-self-report outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit. With successful tech entrepreneurs interviewed and featured throughout, From Startup to Exit will help you understand exactly what tech startups must do to succeed in all phases, from idea stage... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
future problems and opportunities for innovation. The third is a tendency to fail to probe the root causes of success. Whereas post-mortems after failure are becoming a norm in many organizations, such soul searching rarely occurs after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Capitalists” and focused on Rock’s search for intellectual honesty in the people with whom he invested. “Rock’s money smarts and guiding hand turned feisty Silicon Valley startups into some of the nation’s biggest technology companies,”... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of organization—a private-sector View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
budget with Black-owned businesses. My dermatology firm's Black-owned. My law firm is Black-owned, my dental firm is Black-owned. And so I'm asking whites to do the same for the purpose of it trickling down... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details