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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Author's Note: Why Leaders Lose Their Way, my article in the June 6, 2011, edition of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, generated a large number of very thoughtful and profound comments. The following article proposes an antidote... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
essentially looking for the kind of people who would have wanted to sign on with Columbus for his first voyage west. Sahlman: When I first proposed to teach a course in Entrepreneurial Finance, I was told it was the stupidest idea in the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)
happiness that money can bring, I think we are missing something,” says Jachimowicz, an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. “We also need to think about all of the worries that it can free us from.” The View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2022
- Book
Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind
By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.
In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
Jones, Geoffrey, and Tarun Khanna. Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House India, 2022.
- Teaching Interest
Organizational Behavior
Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to develop View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
year filled with fast-moving developments in generative AI, the incorporation of the tools into search and shopping functions sheds light on just how powerful AI-enhanced search engines like Microsoft Bing could become. For instance,... View Details
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
generations of the family are supposed to take care of and grow the founder's creation; they are not expected to be entrepreneurs themselves. Even attempting to reinvent the family company can be seen as disloyal by the family. This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 04 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
- May 2024
- Background Note
Net Revenue Retention: Unpacking the Dynamics of Customer Monetization
By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
Firms and investors alike are beginning to recognize the importance of tracking how revenues from existing customers are evolving over time and to appreciate the value in understanding what might explain changes in these revenues. Consequently, in addition to looking... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Revenue; Measurement and Metrics; Customer Value and Value Chain
Ofek, Elie, Barak Libai, and Eitan Muller. "Net Revenue Retention: Unpacking the Dynamics of Customer Monetization." Harvard Business School Background Note 524-092, May 2024.
- March 2012
- Article
Enriching the Ecosystem
To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these institutions-such as universities, venture creators, labor markets, and job-training programs-have tended... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Enriching the Ecosystem." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
executive pay. The idea that CEO compensation is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth from which chief executives have long benefited. In setting executive pay, directors have not been guided solely by the interests of... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
generally is at a tipping point, with category killers being the first significant casualties of the (r)evolution that is occurring. Retail store asset productivity has been in decline since the start of the recession in 2007, and we... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
trusts. Read the paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03585522.2011.617574 Working PapersWhen to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry Author:Hong Luo Abstract How completely should an innovator develop his View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Every managerial generation rediscovers the need for innovation to drive growth but, decade after decade, "grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting Information as Political Currency
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett