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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
year, with the goal of making the world of finance accessible to broader audiences by providing a rigorous but accessible overview of the biggest topics in finance. Finance is “the language of business, the lifeblood of the economy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
denying responsibility for failures, and attributing the problem to others or to "the system." We would prefer to move on to something more pleasant. Rigorous analysis of failure requires that people, at least temporarily, put... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
begging to have the opportunity to re-engage. Rigorously evaluate the quality and capacity of your senior team and take advantage of the extraordinary executive talent looking for new homes and more promising pastures. 3. Make process... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
were engaged in an experiment they called ‘school desegregation.’ Being born in the inner city, my younger sister and I were put on busses and sent to better schools that happened to be almost all-white schools. And I got a much more View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
to deliver results to identify longstanding employees as representatives of blocked change. However, it is crucial to understand the specifics of an organization in order to act with rigor and precision. Besides their deep knowledge,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
establish long-term compensation practices that reward sustainable gains. How can you recreate your company's image to be the emerging leader that understands customer needs in the new environment? Step 7: Develop rigorous execution... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
'possible success.' If this is the case, then the business is your 'addiction' that you're asking your friends and family to support. Further, founders and entrepreneurs should have a 'safe haven' if they are to have any hope to survive the View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
queues. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50023 Evaluating Firm-Level Expected-Return Proxies By: Lee, Charles M.C., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We develop and implement a rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
Companies often use rigorous R&D processes to guide new product development, but are much less scientific when it comes to creating services. Not Bank of America, which has turned Atlanta-area branches into consumer laboratories.... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
applications to be granted! Furthermore, the new orientation creates strong incentives for the patent office to process applications as quickly as possible, and at the lowest possible cost. As a result, there has been a widely perceived decline in the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
at one of the most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
relationships help faculty translate our field's research into practice, we are able to live into our institutions' promise to shape managerial practice. These engaged relationships with firms help faculty and their business schools excel in both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
reporting is simply common sense, says Ramanna. After all, for the past 30 years accounting scholars have put a lot of effort into building a rigorous set of frameworks and hypotheses to explain and predict financial reporting practice.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
experimentation from permeating the company’s culture. Instead, organizations might learn from the travel site Booking.com, whose leaders have forged a rigorous testing culture that has guided the company to growth, Luca says. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
opposite effects at the two extremes: it reduces the probability of very poor outcomes—because of more rigorous selection processes—while simultaneously increasing the probability of extremely successful outcomes—because of greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
all contact with his or her organization—in other words, leave the BlackBerry at home. But participants soon recognize the value they are receiving at a crucial time in their careers, Simons says. The program includes rigorous dives into... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
study participant. "There's a [perception] that there's a tradeoff between serving the needs of the organizations and doing rigorous research," Beshears said. "But the organization you're working with doesn't know the answer, either. You... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
examining corporate and nonprofit growth for close to 1,000 communities over the period from 1987 to 2002. In addition to the interviews for this study, we have also created a database that enables us to understand the statistical relationships between communities,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne