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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
challenges in meeting the needs of the internal organization, large partners, and small up-and-coming firms. SAP executives, in this case, have to make a decision if a relatively small startup View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
payroll monthly gave me a new appreciation for sales and selling,” he says. “As [Samuel] Johnson said, the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind.” He put much of what he learned in his 2014 book, Aligning Strategy View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
This study empirically examines firms' post-merger behavior using an institutional theory framework. While mergers can serve as a strategic tool for firms to reconfigure their product View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
best solution for an organization. What is the global manager’s most essential trait? The two most critical attributes are open-mindedness and recognizing that global management is all about legitimizing diverse views in an View Details
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Management
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
restraints it will face. Better CSR performance is the result of improved stakeholder engagement, which in turn reduces the likelihood of opportunistic behavior and pushes managers to adopt a long-form...
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by Staff
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
theoretical dichotomy of family and managerial firms is misleading. Instead of interpreting the family firm as a static organization, the focus...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, View Details
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by Paul Michelman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
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firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill....
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, View Details
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by Kim B. Clark
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
a pledge, by a leader and an organization, to move in a particular direction, but to do so in a flexible, open-ended way. High-stakes, highrisk, once-and-for-all decisions—the contemporary versions of the...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
innovation center within a large corporation, including organization, incentives, and scientific issues. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
barrier is not new. It has been a concern for years because it often necessitates a change in leadership and form of organization, something many founders and their...
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve...
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Margie Kelley