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- 18 Jul 2023
- Interview
Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
"Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More." Lessons from a Startup Life (podcast), July 18, 2023.
- Web
Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
nonprofit CEOs and executive directors to lead their organizations effectively, this program provides a conceptual approach to shape the direction, mission, policies, and major programs of nonprofit organizations. Participants explore... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details
- April 2014
- Article
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
By: Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie Wulf
Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team—the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO—doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Functions; Centralization; M-form; Hierarchy; Top Management Team; C-Suite; Activities; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Management Teams; United States
Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf. "Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management." Management Science 60, no. 4 (April 2014): 824–844.
- 2007
- Working Paper
What Have We Learned From Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in... View Details
Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13530, October 2007.
- March 2014
- Article
Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets
By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
Keywords: Management Turnover; Analyst Coverage; Capital Market Relationships; Capital Markets; Relationships
Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets." Accounting Review 89, no. 2 (March 2014).
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Top management structures in large US firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team—the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO—doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
hope that this President will do the same. Christine Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organization, & Marketing Unit: Donald Trump's recent executive order is indefensible. We must... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Optimark: Launching a Virtual Securities Market
Bill Lupien's OptiMark Technologies, Inc., plans to launch a super-computer system in September, 1998 that he believes will release previously withheld liquidity to the securities market. While today's market matches those trades based on price and size, Lupien's... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Markets; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; United States
Sviokla, John J., and Melissa Dailey. "Optimark: Launching a Virtual Securities Market." Harvard Business School Case 399-005, July 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
doing," says Judy Gehrke, executive director of Greenflea, Inc., the operator of two flea markets just north of midtown Manhattan, whose proceeds help support the city's public school system. Every week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
have," said Mark Cleverley, a senior solutions executive at IBM. "The CIA can talk to the INS," agreed Mark Hogan, vice president and general manager at BEA Government Systems, "but there are policy issues that affect... View Details
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum Business Marketing and Sales
Business markets differ from consumer markets in important ways. Typically, the buying process is more complex, the buying units and purchase criteria differ, and marketing decisions are more closely interrelated with firm-wide strategic choices. In addition,... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts
By: Susanna Gallani
Effective design of executive compensation contracts involves choosing and weighting performance measures, as well as defining the mix between fixed and incentive-based pay components, with a view to fostering talent retention and goal congruence. The variability in... View Details
Keywords: Compensation Design; Board Interlocks; Compensation Consultants; Network Centrality; Homophily; Quadratic Assignment Procedure; Blockholders; Executive Compensation
Gallani, Susanna. "Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-019, August 2015. (Revised December, 2016.)
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
increasingly turn to athletes to promote their products. The marketing executives I spoke with told me they value these endorsements especially because it is getting more and more difficult to reach a wide... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
demands a high level of leadership expertise," says W. Earl Sasser, Jr., HBS senior associate dean for Executive Education. "The need for strong management has never been more crucial if this region is to fulfill its economic potential."... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
execute such campaigns? According to HBS professor Alvin J. Silk and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, "The long-run cost function for firms in the global advertising and marketing services business is... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
should be heavily regulated, is the market for indentured servants. A market like that with asymmetric information—in which one person knows a whole lot more about potential View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Blog
HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
to, in some cases anyway, components of integrated blended offerings. It made sense to think of it all as a unified whole rather than two separate lines of business. Luis Viceira (LV) (Senior Associate Dean, HBS online and Executive... View Details