Managerial Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms, language, and culture vary enormously from place to place.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we find that product assessments by powerful stakeholders and peer agencies influence product approval and that their effects vary under different... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2010 (Revised November 2017)
Case

Washout: The Founders' Tale and the Investors' Tale

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr

The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v. Advent VI Ltd. a California Superior Court case. The founders of the company, which produced switches for computer... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry

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21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

of organizational and managerial processes from within, can be just as effective at torpedoing productivity both then and now, Thomke says. As workers toss time-consuming and frustrating curveballs in the air by making bad decisions and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

propagate to others. Our results have significant managerial implications, highlighting the impact of organizational design decisions on the technical structure of the artifacts that these organizations subsequently develop. Read the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

and reaching your potential. "My objective is to help leaders reach their potential by helping them realize that they don't need to have all the answers or do this alone. I hope they will see that framing a question and listening can be enormously View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

managerial human capital explanation of retention. Download the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/jwulf/TargetCEOWulfSinghSeptember2010.pdf Working PapersReversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

in this way—and not diving into the details—can be a jarring transition. One CEO said that he initially felt like the company's "most useless executive," despite the power inherent in the job. The CEO needs to learn how to act... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

film, Moneyball, at least in part a glorification of the triumph of statistics and probabilities over intuition and managerial judgment in professional baseball? Two recent books add to the genre of advice on decision-making. One advises... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

available at this time. Read this article: http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/one_report Working PapersDeveloping Negotiation Case Studies Author:James K. Sebenius Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

case:http://hbr.org/search/713050-PDF-ENG Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth Alfaro, Laura, and Hilary WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-040 Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world economic power appeared... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Fatigue Laboratory, from the 1920s to the 1940s) physiology—yielded results that were either too politically radical for the university's guardians and patrons (as happened at the Wharton School during the Progressive Era) or simply lacking in explanatory View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

people to lay off. If, on the other hand, you acquire a company because it is developing a hot technology, your challenge is to hold on to the acquisition's best engineers. These two scenarios require the acquiring company to engage in nearly opposite View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

other countries, we see islands of competitiveness, where companies have managed to succeed in decoupling themselves from the most negative elements of the domestic environment while retaining the positive elements, as they attempt to become competitive."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries and markets. This device would collect data to answer strategic questions, guide View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Westinghouse, and AT&T), and Telefunken (a joint venture of the two European leaders, Siemens and AEG). After World War II knocked out Telefunken, RCA took the lead in commercializing television worldwide. It was then solely responsible for color television, a... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

America the "visible hand" was so powerful that it controlled not only the corporate landscape, but the political scene and the regulatory environment. My own work ended up being heavily influenced by Al Chandler as I tried to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

could do much better. The unit manager didn’t share that sense of urgency so didn’t organize the senior team around fixing the issues—training for that unit wasn’t going to stick. “The overall argument [we make] is that the system of organizing and managing is so View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details