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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to provide peace of mind. While Huber knew next to nothing about... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
foreign financial institutions. "We also looked at some financial measures of performance ... By far the strongest influence turned out to be the influence of family involvement and the particular form that family involvement took.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
founded, the notion of social enterprise was still relatively new to the lexicon, and HBS was clearly one of the pioneering actors in this broader movement to advance the study and the practice of social enterprise and in inspiring other... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
(MBA 2009) “Space companies are starting to look like tech companies, and that’s huge.” ——Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) While SpaceX is a relatively august entrant into the market, it wasn’t until three years ago that it shook up the industry... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
indicate that patient demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variations. Physician organizational factors matter, but the most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment. In Medicare, we estimate that 35% of spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
intersections and pass the information along to local governments to encourage better traffic management. They review 108 hang-ups, study best practices of emergency medicine in other countries, evaluate the level of care available at... View Details
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agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
city, state and federal level, and explores the role of economic and cluster performance through 2005. Detailed historical economic and social data allows for an evaluation of policy results. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
included Smartwool, a performance brand of wool-based clothes, socks, and accessories. With further diversification in mind, Timberland took notice of trail running, an up-and-coming sport that had already surpassed paddling as an outdoor... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
and eventually the inevitable happens. I realize that if I don't fire Bob, I'm going to lose all my star performers because they're fed up with having to redo his work, having to cover for his mistakes. So I sit down to have a... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
external finance constraints is more pronounced for firms with higher degrees of informational opacity. Specifically, it is particularly strong for small firms, firms without debt ratings, firms that are not included in the S&P 500 stock index, and firms with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
of perspectives that teams can draw upon to innovate, meta-analyses of the team-diversity literature have found weak or inconsistent support for that assumption. These studies also have typically examined effects of team diversity in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Bakoyannis, serves in parliament and was mayor of Athens during the 2004 Summer Olympics—a position now held by her son, Kostas. Dora’s first husband, the politician Pavlos Bakoyannis, was assassinated in 1989 by members of the militant 17 November Group. Mitsotakis... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
late 1980s. The business class is relatively cohesive and very inter-connected, and again increasingly so since the 1980s. This concentration was assisted by privatization of state assets which involved the transfer of a considerable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract Abarbanell and Lehavy (2006) examine the effect of distributional properties of earnings and forecast data used by researchers who investigate 'Street' earnings. They perform a large number of analyses, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace