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- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
decisions. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must pay close attention to how they balance competing pressures in their organizations, and how their words and actions shape the perceptions and beliefs of organization members. In...
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by Michael A. Roberto
- Program
Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
improve care for complicated patient populations Structure your organization according to patient needs rather than medical specialties Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the concept of Time-Driven...
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- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
immediate and long-term goals in mind. One respondent summed up the challenge in a particularly apt way: “Shifting existing organizational structures from ‘peacetime’ value creation to ‘wartime/survival’ in a very short period of time As...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- February 2006 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment
By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
Post-merger, the head of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide must now oversee operations in 98 countries serving 6.6 million students, with over 7,600 local chapter board directors. President and CEO David Chernow's own board has increased to 111 members. Two separate...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Change Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance;
Business or Company Management;
Service Operations;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Balance and Stability
Chu, Michael, and Barbara Zepp Larson. "JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment." Harvard Business School Case 306-025, February 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
scientists are much less likely to advise for-profit biotechnology companies. We also identify factors that contour this gender difference, including scientists' co-authorship network structure and the level of support for commercial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
policy propagating through banks’ balance sheets are primarily driven by cash flow loans, whereas asset-based credit is mostly insensitive to these types of effects. See Victoria’s other research here , Luc’s other research here , and...
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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091305?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life By: Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Work/life View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
isn't perfect, is a part of the balance of happiness. And that you need both in order to maintain being happier. And so I learned to appreciate the times when there is unhappiness. Because that unhappiness has something to reveal to you...
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by HBS Staff
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new...
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by Avery Forman
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Europe - Global
when adverse weather conditions threatened his grape harvest. The episode explores how Cornelissen balanced his commitment to natural winemaking with the need for flexibility in “Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate.” June 2024...
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012) Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
system rather than a government-controlled system. Book: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServletCr?region=9&imprint=070&titleCode=GCCL&cf=p&type=3&id=254645 Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
organizational units, one for law enforcement and one for domestic intelligence, seeking what scholars call “structural ambidexterity.” Two, the FBI could have pursued “contextual ambidexterity” wherein senior management establishes simultaneous View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- December 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Yellow Corporation, one of the country’s oldest and largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, was nearing its 100th anniversary in 2024. Whether it would reach that milestone, however, was uncertain as the company was attempting to restructure its operations to...
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Labor Unions;
Labor and Management Relations;
Capital Structure;
Restructuring;
Financial Management;
Ethics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financial Strategy;
Truck Transportation;
Change Management;
Transportation Industry;
Shipping Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 224-028, December 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
specifically express interest in a suitable product are more likely to receive an appropriate recommendation, though most still receive bad advice. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We then test how regulation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this...
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Dina Gerdeman