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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
from other high-status firms. Among high-status firms, we distinguish between those that also receive ties from peripheral low-status firms and those that do not. Though the peripheral ties contribute little to firms' status, we hypothesize that they play a critical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
managers tend to track members of the top management teams of firms (CEOs, CFOs, Presidents, and Board Chairs) and tend to share educational and location-based commonalities with the specific insiders they choose to follow. Collectively,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
categorical hierarchies and in the ability to reconcile incompatible organizational capabilities. Second, we theorize and attend to the role of emotional frames in innovation adoption. Thus, we advance a model that articulates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and have become active politically. Health facilities have also improved. Although this operation will eventually turn a profit for DaimlerChrysler, it could not have happened without the help of the German and Brazilian governments. This highlights another View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
SSRN Download Counts? Authors: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin Abstract We use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
do. And yet I looked at the team and said, "Okay, guys. It's time [laughing]. It's time to cash in. It's time to cash in here. Because this is going to go on a tangent that we're not going to support. And DM: Right. JI: ... we're better... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
School Case 214-021 The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A) This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first investment in Turkey. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
approximately 3,200 executives who took biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996; these data show that almost one quarter of these firms had someone on their IPO team who once worked at Baxter. Even after accounting for Baxter's... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have made significant strides—real... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
might say that's what you're doing at Harvard. But I've been doing it since I was a freshman in college, trying to help people and encouraging them to go into leadership roles and build organizations—like I did at Medtronic—of leaders.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
identity. I tried to fix my accent, I did not hang out with other Asians, and I joined the predominantly white varsity crew team as a rower. However, the conversations with friends from all over the world at HBS taught me that being a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western Region Megapolis Planning Project,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
a team they trusted—and especially me. Our near-catastrophe became a source of guidance: Which decisions, large and small, would most likely preserve and strengthen the confidence of our backers? It has proven a useful guide then and in... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios