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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
single drops from the finger. Holmes’ rapid rise to fame put her on a fast track to success, with high expectations and intense pressures. Yet she hadn’t had adequate leadership experience leading people through difficult and complex business problems. Holmes View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial markets in mediating the potential benefits? We first define FDI and discuss general theories on types and drivers of FDI. This review takes a host-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
young and upcoming French executive prepared to hand over leadership. The executive reflected on what he had achieved and how as he considered next steps. He wanted to return to his native France, but the company requested that he go turn around another emerging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly back to the safety of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
that reason, the Executive Board was created to oversee the operations and aid allocations. For its part, the Board of Executive Directors is the decision-making body of the World Bank's two primary component institutions: the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
instant photography. Under the leadership of its mercurial founder Edwin Land, the company regularly released new instant cameras and films, often without any market research. Land created a culture of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
creating "a modern version of alchemy," turning packages of poorly-rated mortgages into triple-A-rated collateral debt obligations, complete with supposed insurance against risk. The problem was that even financial experts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
existing agglomerations, not creating new ones. The paper discusses several practical insights for regional policy makers. Publisher's link: http://cjres.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/rst008 2006 Psychological Science The Ergonomics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
almost sole focus on business results and their fiduciary responsibilities. Boards and CEOs must create a common vision of the effective, values based, high commitment, high performance organization they intend to build together and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian wedding industry. They tracked... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the new state law. PayPal cancelled plans to View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
in other revenue management settings and beyond. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Technology Reemergence: Creating New Markets for Old Technologies, Swiss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
is inevitably reflected in the way these companies are managed. "There is an increasingly international style of management," declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons