CEO Time Use - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

limited by how quickly customers can learn and how quickly their lives and needs can change. At the same time, he said, the pace of technological progress almost always outstrips the ability of customers to use any particular new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

03 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

countries even require approvals from local governments. Labor law differences also exist between states, and even those sometimes conflict with federal law. A management team that fails to factor these differences into planned layoffs, assuming that View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

performance in organizations. Using a field experiment at a Japanese bank, we investigate the effects of valence (positive versus negative), type (direct versus indirect), and timing of feedback (one-shot... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

time they tried a big change (in their case, the "customer centric" initiative), they were unsuccessful, and some of the consequences (impossible workloads for a while, a few good people's careers derailed) were very unpleasant.... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

17 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

during the pandemic gave researchers an opportunity to look at the impact of an influx of liquidity into the market and its relationship to cryptocurrency investing. Di Maggio and his team examined levels of cryptocurrency investing at intervals that aligned with the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

expresses interest. You're just one click away from your next executive role. CEO Discovery CEO Discovery is a private networking platform that connects senior operating executives with leadership... View Details

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

customer, there is no value. Instead of using pricing in a way that turns customers into adversaries, companies can use it to enlarge the pie. That means viewing customers as partners in value creation-a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

Feldberg embarked upon a new survey of parents in two-earner households with kids under 18 at home. Across several papers recently presented at the Academy of Management meetings in Boston, they sought to understand how parents allocated their View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

06 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Parks Management is People Management

not yet becoming clear. This guided my decision to intern with the National Park Service (NPS). My objective was to test the portability of MBA principles to practical and timely resources challenges. The great news is that, half way... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations. Using publications in leading life science journals to measure fundamental knowledge, we document large agglomerations in the institutions where... View Details

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Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

learn more about the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, please email us at rockcenter@hbs.edu . Gil Addo SVP, Specialty Care Solutions RubiconMD acquired by CVS Health Andrzej Baraniak Founder / Chief Revenue Officer Albert Eric Boutin... View Details

14 Mar 2018
Blog Post

The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks

make sense on that path?” I quickly realized that I didn’t need the answers – in fact, the beauty of 2+2 is the time it gives you to explore, ask questions, and learn. I decided to dive in and, looking back, it was the best decision of my... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Information featured in The New Yorker Kodak's Old-School Response to Disruption By: Ryan Raffaelli More Information HBS Working Knowledge CEOs and Coaches How Important is Organizational 'Fit'? By: Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik How big... View Details

08 Aug 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani

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By: Leemore S. Dafny

U.S. Healthcare Strategy

The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Health; Healthcare Reform; Life Sciences; Health Industry; United States

What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive

During times of economic turbulence, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn’t, just to keep the lights on. This path is perilous. If a firm’s practices have a diffuse mix of clients and unclear... View Details

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Hurry or Wait: The Pros and Cons of Going Fast or Slow on Climate Change

By: Eleanor Denny and Jurgen Weiss

Climate change risk will likely force the de-carbonization of our electricity sector and thus involve massive investments in long-lived assets using many new and emerging technologies. Since technological progress (independent or dependent on deployment) will likely... View Details

Keywords: Electricity Sector; Environmental Risks; Fat Tails; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Climate Change; Information Technology; Investment; Technological Innovation; Cost vs Benefits

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03 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

portion of the paper used seniority and wage measures to compare career trajectories of VC-backed entrepreneurs before and after their startup’s launch, relative to career trajectories of cohorts of non-entrepreneurs who graduated from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2024
Article

Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences

By: Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Suraj Srinivasan

This paper examines determinants and consequences of hedge fund activism, focusing on activist directors, i.e., directors appointed in response to activist demands. Using a sample of 3,259 activism events from 2004 to 2016, we identify 1,623 activist directors.... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations