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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
with McVay, the team simultaneously provided mentorship and support for a young coach, while also laying the foundation for a “Plan B” in case McVay cratered. What’s the score? What are we to make of all of this? Older professionals may...
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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And Harvard Business...
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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
management. Instead, Perlman mapped backward from his VC target, reasoning that WebTV's appeal and value to the VCs would be greatly enhanced by partnership with a prominent consumer electronics firm. Perlman started View Details
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by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field of research: the value created and...
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- January 2022
- Article
Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino and Timothy McQuade
We examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm...
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Firms;
Entrepreneurs;
Demand Shocks;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Characteristics;
Demographics;
Opportunities;
Brazil
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino, and Timothy McQuade. "Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?" Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 107–130.
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
added experience, strong identification, and distinct understanding of the organization to the team to support the young players on the pitch. Two experienced homegrown players became the cornerstones of his team: Thomas Müller and View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
antagonistic students, sexism, and racism. Even when case discussions raised controversial topics, Christensen's leadership was informed by clarity and confidence. David Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen...
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- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
should be practicing anyway. The only new element is that it has to be practiced in a different (remote) work environment. As David Wittenberg put it, “It might take a bit more time to connect with employees online instead of walking...
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by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
our results suggest that the predictive value of accruals and market participants' ability to process it are a significant driver of accrual-based anomalies. Consumer Policy Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Chap. 26 in The Oxford Handbook on Business and...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit...
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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
several members of the quartet. Time spent rehearsing was time not spent performing and recording. They did eventually record the entire string quartet cycle on Nimbus. Folks who are able to play the way these guys play can get lots of gigs and are paid good rates...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is....
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and communication technology, we see a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
of stopping immigration seemed to be leading inexorably into a Leave vote before the murder last week of the young Member of Parliament Jo Cox by a man who gave his name to the court as “Death to traitors,...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- April 2011
- Article
The Emotional Impact and Behavioral Consequences of Post-M&A Integration: An Ethnographic Case Study in the Software Industry
By: David Ager
This ethnographic case study has focused in depth on one type of acquisition, that of two small, young firms (each with less than 2,000 employees and less than ten years in operation) acquired by one company in the software development industry based in the United...
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Integration;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Behavior;
Groups and Teams;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Emotions
Ager, David. "The Emotional Impact and Behavioral Consequences of Post-M&A Integration: An Ethnographic Case Study in the Software Industry." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40, no. 2 (April 2011): 199–230.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts....
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Startup;
Organizational Structure;
Nanotechnology;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Management Systems;
Commercialization;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Transportation Industry;
United States
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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Picture a dog. The image you have in your mind probably has a long history. It likely started when you were very young and came across a dog for the first time: Maybe you pet the dog, maybe it licked your hand. You met a few other dogs,...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the...
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