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- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout funds. The average View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
businesses that have passed through the high growth stage can continue to deliver the resources, capabilities, and platforms needed to fuel the emerging opportunities of the future. This business lifecycle view of innovation requires new leadership and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
sustainability performance and how its sustainability initiatives were contributing to its financial performance. The narrative of this call was very similar to the narrative of the company's first "integrated report," which was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
differentiation: de-emphasizing the strategic orientation their main rival is emphasizing. Finally, we show that the greater the competitive intensity, the greater the contribution strategic orientation differentiation has on business performance. Boardroom Centrality...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
cognitive frames are static, showing how they become flexible via categorical positioning, and introduce a role for emotional frames that appeals to organizational members' sentiments and aspirations in innovation adoption. Publisher's...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
may explain different ways of organizing across organizations. This study contributes to understanding social entrepreneurship as a field of practice and it describes avenues for theorizing about the different organizational approaches...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
and Experimentation Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
processes were already equipped for the challenge. Successful firms, by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts....
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
repositioned to serve the "traditional yet modern" Indian woman. The brand still carries some baggage from its past. GoldPlus, on the other hand, is a new brand that is positioned to serve the plain gold wedding jewelry market. A variety of strategic,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family psychology at that. I stumbled onto...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed to find a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
performance. They have effectively outsourced the evaluation of CEO performance and compensation to the market, and often to consultants. As an example, from 1990 to 2001, the share of equity-based compensation in total CEO...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
that individuals who are given time to reflect on a task improve their performance at a greater rate than those who are given the same amount of time to practice with the same task. Our results also show that if individuals themselves are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
as organizational effectiveness. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-063.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-005 Stock Pitching at Freelin Capital No abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
mergers of good and bad banks and equity injections. We apply the framework to European banks vulnerable to sovereign risk in 2010 and 2011. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18537 Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of...
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Sean Silverthorne