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03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

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Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta empirically assesses if friends indeed influence purchases. The answer: It depends. The End of Chimerica For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a... View Details

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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

Summing Up What is the right mix between intuition and analysis? Several clear themes characterized responses to this month's column. Dominant among these was that the best way to reach a decision depends on a number of factors, including... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jan 2013
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Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

prices, it would not have benefited nearly as much," Hagiu says. "When Apple came in with its iPod, it was the only option. The music companies didn't anticipate that iTunes would become a dominant platform. They were in a weaker... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

decade head start in nylon, potentially dominating the market for year.8 These first two sections have dealt with inadvertent failures. If a firm can identify and analyze such failures, and then learn from them, it may be able to retrieve... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Jun 2022
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Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

(iStockphoto/Krle) Advocates for stakeholders—including employees, customers, suppliers, the “community,” and investors—have dominated the discussion of leadership and management over the past two decades. They believe that enlightened... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2019
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Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

By: Malcolm S. Salter

In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

careers began when men dominated the workforce and women shouldered all caregiving needs. Now a vicious cycle persists: Employees suffer in silence and eschew potentially helpful benefits, and employers assume that employees are coping... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

17 Oct 2018
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Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

a very clear pathway now.” And while soccer is still the dominant sport on the continent, Lawani says the sport is resting too comfortably on its laurels: “Football has taken the continent for granted forever. There’s no active investment... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

the plan is deemed “fair and equitable.” Chapter 11 can therefore dominate out of court restructuring when creditors are more numerous, more heterogeneous, or motivated by different goals. This is true for any type of debt, not only debt... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

02 Aug 2020
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Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

the so-called learning organization. Learning organizations try many things and keep what works. This process requires intensive testing of ideas as well as reliance on the data produced by the tests, rather than depending on untested opinions (too often generated by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

interactions." Native speakers can also dominate conversations, workers said in Neeley's interviews. "Sometimes it's hard to get our American colleagues to be quiet but we manage," a high-fluency speaker reported in an... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

04 Feb 2013
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Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

30 Mar 2018
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What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

idea the dominant instinctive choice. Faculty Books The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital By Archie L. Jones, Jr., Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Forbes Books Leadership is not about... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

their families' dynastic businesses: She was able to act, she says, "because I was a family member and not worried about getting fired." India is still dominated by family-run businesses, representing 85 percent of the country's... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

when a better price can be found online. The change in shopping habits will only speed up as the younger generation becomes a dominant force in retail shopping. These consumers are increasingly comfortable buying online in categories that... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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