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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
traditional outsourcing strategy, organization and processes. In a recent research project, we interviewed managers from 45 projects in over 20 firms to understand the practices that differentiated those firms that reported greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
hospitals with the aim of discovering organizational factors that contribute to operational failures. We conducted in-depth qualitative research, including observations and interviews of over 80 individuals from 4 nursing units and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
in the twenty-first century." Grove gave Tedlow unprecedented access to his private papers, along with wide-ranging interviews and access to his closest friends and key business associates. Nothing was off limits, and Tedlow was free... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
coupled with regular meetings of the independent directors is critical to the independent directors' ability to function effectively as a counterweight to management. When interviewing candidates for CEO, the board needs to ask probing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
firms, less is known about the more complex choices faced by hybrid organizations that balance social and economic objectives and curate symbolic, values-based portfolios. By process-tracing original interview data from three leading... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
of lower-level employees of a multiple identity organization. Using interview data, archival data, and longitudinal survey data, we detail the interplay between identities and identification in a non-profit organization, showing that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
daily diary entries and weekly interviews from four project teams, and a separate sample of critical incident interviews, to induce process models of successful and unsuccessful helping episodes. We found that, in unsuccessful episodes,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
113-048 Presents the company's perspective using an interview format. Ramnath K.Nalli, vice chairman of Nalli Silk Sarees Private Limited, and his daughter, Lavanya Nalli (HBS MBA 2011), the fifth generation entrepreneur to be involved in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
founded, and which he never thought anybody would read. They were kept strictly for himself. Q: So these had never been seen before? A: No, that's correct. And he also gave me access to his Rolodex, which meant that I was able to get literally dozens of View Details