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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
want to see in your own rearview mirror at age 40, 50, and 60,” he adds. “Begin exploring ideas you have a passion for and might be able to build on when you make the break.” Holden began winding down his business in 1987, at the age of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
company to serve an affinity constituency was often the only choice for success in business. Q: How has that situation changed today? Do paths to power mirror trends and values in society at large? A: There are still inside and outside... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
period following the last day of class. It will mirror the format of the midterm written exercise. Students are not required to be on campus to take the exam. The final comprises 35% of the grade. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
168-184 Abstract Customer metrics are pivotal to assessing and monitoring how firms perform with customers and other publics. The authors contend that customer metrics used by firms today are predominantly rear-view mirrors reporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
behavior. At the other are open source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
through until you acknowledge your own culpability. If you fire me from my job, I have to look myself in the mirror and ask, "What role did I have in getting fired?" In a CNN interview that I showed in class, Mark puts all the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
Journal. Most of the thirteen agent-led diversified firms had widely dispersed equity ownership; however, in a few companies, like Times Mirror and King Broadcasting, members of firms' founding families owned the majority of shares. Among... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
George Floyd moment —have really internalized that vision of that. And are now doing work to really understand what's behind this. Does systematic racism really exist and why? CEOs and others have to look in the mirror and simply make the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
stare at his own reflection in the mirror for a weirdly long time. Momo could outrun a once-pro-BMXer on a BlueBike – wish I hadn’t learned this one. I came to appreciate how beautiful it is to be afforded the opportunity to truly know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Solution: Move your phone to the basement, and avoid those (often regrettable) midnight emails. What do you do in this new dead time before bed? Read fiction from real books. Research shows fiction opens up the mirror neurons in our brain... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
government should regulate or encourage commerce will be a central debate. How does your research help us think about this question? A: History is a mirror that is both reflecting and distorting, and can very seldom offer us easy answers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how systems can be modularized. I then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
observations or ask the hard questions of hopeful entrepreneurs. “I want you to think about whether you really are an entrepreneur,” he says to a young woman who hopes to launch a mirror makeup app using facial recognition technology. And... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna