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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the product in January 2007, he said... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring is to increase the overall... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
canopy, we are naturally inclined to cling onto the vine we have until we've secured the next vine we need. The virtues of a sustained income cannot be denied, and most professionals have no desire to burn bridges and, more importantly, wish to View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
What was the genesis of the research that ended up as "Allocating Marketing Resources"? What was the problem that you were trying to answer? Sunil Gupta and Thomas Steenburgh: Our goal in writing this chapter was to ask how the academic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
study, we looked at how gender-based assumptions in over 100 companies influenced issues such as career planning, goal setting, promotions, and raises. We examined the characteristics most frequently cited in View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
ensure accountability, cultivate collaboration, and encourage initiative. Individual and system accountability. Jim Kilts said it best: "A promise made is a promise kept." As we have seen, confidence is enhanced when people are held accountable and accept... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness after performing a goal-directed act of kindness than did those who were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
this module by illustrating how to use a profit plan to test a strategy’s viability. This module shows how the profit plan plays a critical role in every business: setting performance goals for employees,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course... View Details
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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
contributions from guest speakers. The goal of the case discussions and exercises is to examine important concepts in different managerial settings, and to sample making decisions based on both qualitative and quantitative data. The... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
one-time or time-limited strategic purposes. This rate applies to HBS and to all schools at Harvard. Consistent with the long-term goal of preserving the value of the endowment in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
explains Simons. At a recent AMP session, Simons rolled out his research on what he calls the Executive Compass, which assigns key performance factors to each of the tool's 8 points. "The North Star of this is identifying your... View Details