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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market share points,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
motivation, perspective-taking, and performance, such that identity conflict negatively and enhancement positively affect all three variables above and beyond average identification. Intrinsic motivation further mediates the relationships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
decisions and ultimately impact observers' willingness to be influenced by them. Three studies suggest that observing others make more (versus less) thoughtful decisions generates more positive reactions when a choice is difficult but... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
political affiliations, so it can provoke both negative and positive responses. Nevertheless, in the age of Twitter, silence on an issue can be conspicuous—and consequential. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
president and CEO, Margaret Clark, was contemplating the launch of a new, lip-plumping product called "Four Carat Pout." Clark faced many decisions concerning the launch: marketing the product as a luxury brand or a retail item; how to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
responsible for the School's strategic planning and new initiatives (1998-2005). Light became Acting Dean on August 1, 2005, upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean on April 24, 2006. While in graduate school at Harvard, Light met... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Michael Beer Is silence killing your strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of some professors to call on the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Bazerman Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
larger sample over multiple years. Given this evidence, we conclude that, on average, firms' self-reported anticorruption efforts signal real efforts to combat corruption and are not merely cheap talk. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga; András Tilcsik, assistant professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto; and Sora Jun, a doctoral candidate at... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the effects of View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has had a View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/private-equity-jobs-and-productivity-8-march-2014-with-ables-and-figures-clean.pdf August 2013 Strategic Management Journal The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence they can occupy-compliance expert, technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley