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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
several of the key elements that the XTV staff believed were critical to that company's success, such as a considerable degree of autonomy and high-powered incentives. The experience of Xerox Technology Ventures has several implications... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies Free Trade Bulletin No. 40, August 13, 2009. Daniel T. Griswold, "As Immigrants Move In, Americans Move Up," Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies Free Trade View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
expert to her team, and started hiring staff from nail salons and department-store cosmetics counters. "It feels really good to have something you worked so hard for come to reality," she almost bubbled. Still to come were the... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
listen to or act upon them. An introverted leader, on the other hand, is more likely to listen to and process the ideas of an eager team. But if an introverted leader is managing a bunch of passive followers, then a staff meeting may... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
lifetime. HBS colleagues Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson expressed some of the same thoughts in a book they coauthored titled Just Enough, a personal determination made through “the art of complex decision-making about noncomparable... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
achieve organizational efficiency ... (by) highly motivated and committed staff with the passion to overachieve." Further, it is thought to work best in cultures where people have the latitude on occasion to fail (or as Mariana van... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
and everywhere in between, "fundamental but highly controversial issues often are not surfaced," former Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense, Ford Motor Company president, and World Bank president Robert S. McNamara (HBS MBA '39) told the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. The HBS Alumni Bulletin recently talked to them about their research. “Around 2005 and 2010, some large-scale,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
all that changed. HBS associate professor Robert Huckman, professor Gary Pisano, and research associate Virginia Fuller tell that story in "JetBlue Airways: Valentine's Day 2007," a case taught in the MBA course Operations... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
revenue. HBS Professor Frances X. Frei and her colleagues Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker, both of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have studied the use of call centers in this industry. In their working paper... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest employee turnover rate among all of the departments at EMU. Furthermore, her new unit was infamous for its culture of confrontation, blaming, and favoritism. The staff that has remained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation of the telecommunication industry on the island... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
School Case 606-118 A successful young design firm faces a difficult decision: whether to compromise its creative values to win a big job. The client brief is very conservative. The company is pretty sure it can win the design competition, but the design View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
service to society. Beyond his research, Lawrence was committed to building the field of organizational behavior at HBS and more broadly in our profession. He had a lifelong passion for participant-centered learning and for the training... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School trains many future business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Many business-to-business (B2B) CEOs view marketing as the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with frontline workers can backfire if... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace