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- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
unforeseen consequences on executive performance and may work against the interests of employers. Romana Autrey, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, recently completed two working papers on this subject in collaboration... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts and recommendations done by Wall Street... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
corporate America ever win back people's confidence? Harvard Management Update recently discussed this issue with Thomas R. Piper, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
As a vast place full of limitless possibility, space is a huge draw for brilliant minds and big ambitions. A new generation of billionaire entrepreneurs is vying to lay claim to it. Be it Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, or Paul... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Unilever CEO Paul Polman, we can see the effect these groups have had on more senior executives. Polman has asked his top 500 executives worldwide to experience these groups. He notes, "Forming True North Groups is an integral part of the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
competitiveness of individual firms. Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in 2001. It is led by Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
and Rohini Somanathan Publication:In Handbook of Development Economics. Vol. 4, edited by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2008 Abstract This chapter focuses on the relationship between public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
Rospil.info, coauthored with HBS professor Paul M. Healy and research associate Matthew Shaffer, focuses on the Russian anticorruption blogger Alexey Navalny, who advocates tech-savvy ways to expose and... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
"younger culture" that is now infusing organizations with "teaming and a desire to be more cohesive (which will) actually foster more effective innovation," as Paul Davis suggested. What do you think? Original Article... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
published his two-volume, 1,095-page tome, Business Cycles, after more than seven years of concentrated research. He was fifty-six years old at the time and had been a professor at Harvard since 1932. He was well known throughout the... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
who commented that the method is dependant on the quality of instructors and students alike. He pointed out the importance of the "quality and quantity of students involved in the discussion" as well as "a professor who is... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
(about Martin Luther King Jr.). Savvy From The Start U2's business savvy in the earliest days serves as a lesson for any MBA student. In an industry notorious for its focus on short-term hits and for taking control of an artist's work and profits, the band members and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which managers have differential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
dialectic between professional management ... and entrepreneurialism...." Many commented that it will take time. Paul Williams implied that it will at least require the retirement of Baby Boomers in commenting that "... it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 1967
- Book
Organization and Environment
By: Paul R. Lawrence and J. W. Lorsch
Lawrence, Paul R., and J. W. Lorsch. Organization and Environment. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, Division of Research, 1967. (Reissued as a Harvard Business School Classic, Harvard Business School Press, 1986.)
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace