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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
characterized by some boundary conditions (Study 6). We discuss the theoretical contribution of this work to research on moral regulation and ethical behavior. "CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
When Everlywell was first founded to provide at-home lab tests for women, one potential investor even said “the whole idea sucks.” Most potential investors who were willing to take a meeting had heard about the products from their wives... View Details
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting
back to goals of effective collaboration that produce exceptional products and services. Furthermore, setting the stage is also about reframing failure. When leaders reframe failure as an opportunity for... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
organization, says Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor. In fact, the fault often lies with managers who set unrealistic deadlines, production targets, or other objectives that lead decent people to take shortcuts to achieve the goal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Edward T. Bedford Corn Products Refining Company, 1906–1930 Edward J. Bednarz Pinkerton's, 1967–1979 Olive Ann M. Beech Beech Aircraft Corporation, 1950–1968 Eugene N. Beesley Eli Lilly & Company, 1969–1973 Hernand Behn International... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
looked at 6,182 drugs, 325 markets, and 10,637 drug-indications, or projects. Krieger examined how projects react to competitor failure in three types of situations: products in the same market but using... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
Avoiding Startup Failure Lindsay Hyde Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring 2024 Q3 1.5 Business Marketing and Sales (also listed under Marketing) TBD Spring 2024 Q4 1.5 Data for Impact... View Details
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-069. On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
every inch of those financial graphs represents hope or fear, confidence or dread, triumph or ruin, celebration or sorrow.” [22] Investors in financial products related to Lehman Brothers protest in Hong Kong, October 31, 2008. Courtesy... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
order to get comfortable with the inevitable missteps and unconfirmed hypotheses of experimentation, leaders need a new attitude toward risk. Eschewing opportunities just to avoid failure is perhaps the riskiest position of all in the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
performance improvements during the incentive period but are relatively short lived, while implicit incentives facilitate a longer persistence of the organizational behavior modification. Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
Brothers, he did not sell his products at prevailing prices. Instead, he discounted his merchandise, passing the savings he achieved on to the consumer, and made his profit on volume rather than on margin. "Simple enough," as... View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Adi Sunderam AUG 2021 What are the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks? The authors develop novel measures of banks’ productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that deposit View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
processes and talent systems. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/eUdkBzKkQThcMS1T8PRn][/div] Embracing experimentation and the inevitable missteps and failures inherent to the innovation process is frankly nerve-racking for leaders and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
Feng Zhu Abstract We provide the first formal model of business model innovation in a game-theoretic framework. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
years into his tenure, GE became the most valuable company in the world. Gelles and Cohan cite everything from failed acquisitions and strategies to brutal downsizing, forced ranking of managers, a poor environmental record, legal accounting practices designed to... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a 40% share in the tomato paste and diced tomato market in 2013. Different from traditional manufacturing companies, Morning Star relied on self-management to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
quickly find that the costs outweigh the benefits. According to the authors, the only reliable path to maintaining market leadership is transformational innovation: major changes to products and services that redefine what customers... View Details