Frictions - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

intelligence that the company relied on, which led to friction with Google executives. Ultimately, they were both fired from Google, but brought visibility to these issues in the field. Similarly, actresses Jessica Chastain and Octavia... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

Jeff told her he’d found a local professor who was letting him experiment with airplane wings and friction and drag.” Flash forward to today. Amazon is not only one of the world’s most powerful and innovative companies, but one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

responsibilities of a leader at a moment like that? PJ: I think the majority of my leadership training comes from my time that I spent in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer. We were always taught that the leader should be at the point of View Details

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

you and your coauthors suggest that the idea that the internet is the “death of distance” is overstated. Could you discuss a bit how the internet/web does and does not reduce geography as a friction point for getting business done? Shane... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

2011
Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Info Segmented Arbitrage By: Adi Sunderam , Emil Siriwardane & Jonathan Wallen NOV 2021 Financial intermediaries play a key role in determining asset prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets related to the uncertainty of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

such friction by implementing rigid policies based on the presumption that they have correctly anticipated how the pandemic will evolve. Designing and implementing any durable policy requires having a firm grasp of what the world—the “new... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

underscore the importance of accounting for the trade frictions that shape MNEs’ regional supply chains. Keywords: Multinational Enterprise ; Input-output Linkages ; Multinational Firms and Management ; Trade ; Supply Chain Citation Read... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

friction from ecommerce shopping, or applying Big Data to achieve supply chain efficiencies Enthusiasm for a particular industry or "space," such as IoT or green energy initiatives For those who recognize themselves as founders, the next... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down. These... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Harvard Business School. He researches and teaches entrepreneurship, exploring the biases and frictions that shape how founders and markets learn. His current research explores how... Anthony Mayo C. Roland Christensen Distinguished... View Details

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance/Institut Européen de données financièries (AFFI/EUROFIDAI). Boris Vallee : Winner of the 2014 Top Finance Graduate Award from the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) and the Department of Finance at Copenhagen Business School.... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Accomplishing that requires permanent, work-based learning programs that support educators’ degree-granting programs and employers’ hiring strategies. Closing the gaps and reducing the frictions between completing one’s education and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

complicated, time-consuming, and costly. We are building an end-to-end issuance platform that removes these frictions and brings in more supply of high-quality carbon credits to the market. The ClimateCAP programming has been helpful in... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

proceed with the IPO on October 15, 2020. The move proved fruitful—Kaspi.kz was oversubscribed by five times and valued at $6.5 billion. “At the end, Kaspi.kz London IPO was a success,” observes Ivashina, “but the case illustrates the significant View Details

01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

defensive for years. Organizations have been delayering—eliminating middle management jobs—to try to be more agile, with faster decision making and execution. Downsizing in the name of economies of scale has hit middle management hard. Some regard middle managers as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

will often consider the giant risk but ignore the smaller risks that create friction in the supply chain," says M. Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover,... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

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