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  • 05 Feb 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

business. Christensen cites IBM and Merrill Lynch as examples of companies exposed to disruptive technologies. The disruptive technology for IBM is Dell's use of direct marketing and distribution, particularly over the Internet. For broker Merrill Lynch, it is online... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

unexplored dimension. Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker. Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2021
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Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess longer-term View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

(September-October 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gyu/TWFR%20Sept-Oct%202011%20The%20Return%20Experience%20of%20Hedge%20Fund%20Investors.pdf Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9

interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

managers, and the company ends up as a collection of feudal baronies. This is a recipe for long-term failure, say the authors. Their research of 12 top management teams at major companies suggests that firms thrive only when senior teams lead ambidextrously—when they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team familiarity (i.e., the average number of times that each member has worked with every other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2017
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How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard tests... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2005
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Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

extent and how should boards be held accountable for failing to foster "bench strength" that would obviate the need for hiring CEOs from the outside? To what extent, if at all, can markets for CEOs be made more efficient? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jan 2014
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Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

growth. One respondent turned the topic on its head, posing a more interesting question of whether equality fosters productivity. Several felt that innovation and productivity increases are leading to inequality. As Donald Shaw put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

issues relating to fostering innovation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

inherently a platform for performing computations as dictated by their programs. I state and prove five propositions about platform systems, which stand in contrast to the propositions derived for step processes in Chapter 8. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

and what subjects to teach, without concern for economic or political agendas. Responsibly exercised, this freedom is a great intellectual and competitive advantage. Traditional universities benefit society not just by producing intelligent graduates and valuable... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

that ethnically Chinese firms in China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the performance of ethnically Chinese firms deteriorates over time. One hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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