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  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In contrast, one recent analysis found... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

firm can capture from innovation. Building on a number of case studies, this paper presents a simple framework for categorizing different collaborative modes. The framework is based on the notion that there are two critical dimensions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

manufactured by another firm elsewhere, and distributed by dealers everywhere—all underwritten by global cash flows. Often these networks are established without much redundancy planning or other risk-mitigation factors to counter... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

Keywords: by Susan Helper & Rebecca Henderson; Auto
  • 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2022
  • Article

How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Switzerland
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  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/bvillalonga/VillalongaAmit_FM_Final.pdf Working Papers Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier automobile View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

  Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for bidders to offer the 52-week... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and safety inventories by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508036 Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal Harvard Business School Case 408-001 Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

these obstacles. Would he be able to free the grapes? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707472 Stryker Corp.: In-sourcing PCBs Harvard Business School Case 207-121 This case examines a proposed investment in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/   Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

  Working PapersIn Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene Abstract Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

we try and find other reasons to explain it,” Gallani says. Which rewards motivate workers? In a new working paper written with doctoral student Wei Cai, Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties in Subsequent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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